The following appeared as part of an article in a Dillton newspaper.
"In an effort to bring new jobs to Dillton and stimulate the city's flagging economy, Dillton's city council voted last year to lower the city's corporate tax rate by 15 percent; at the same time, the city began offering generous relocation grants to any company that would move to Dillton. Since these changes went into effect, two new factories have opened in Dillton. Although the two factories employ more than 1,000 people, the unemployment rate in Dillton remains unchanged. The only clear explanation for this is that the new factories are staffed with out-of-town workers rather than Dillton residents."
Write a response in which you discuss one or more alternative explanations that could rival the proposed explanation and explain how your explanation(s) can plausibly account for the facts presented in the argument.
The author of the article in Dillton newspaper states that the only possible explanation for the unchanged unemployment rate in Dillton even after the opening of two new factories is because these factories employ out-of-town workers. While this may be a plausible reason for the unchanged unemployment rate in Dillton, there may be a few other causes, discussed below, which the author has ignored before making his conclusion.
The unemployment rate is the ratio of the total number of unemployed people to the total labor force of a region. There are a large number of factors that affect this ratio. First, the labor force of Dillton may be very high, thus even though two factories have opened and employed people, the net effect on the ratio is miniscule. Second, since two new factories have opened, people from areas adjacent to Dillton may have migrated there in hope of finding job. This will increase the total labor force and in turn have a negative effect on employment rate. The author should also take into account the fact that many people who are unemployed may not be interested in working a full time job, thereby not opting for a job even when it is available, causing no change in the unemployment rate. The author should focus and discuss on these demographics before making his conclusion.
Another possible reason for the static unemployment rate might be that previous employment agencies like factories, shops etc. have shut done or cut the number of employees they can support. Thus, though new factories have opened, the unemployment rate has not decreased. The author has discussed that the council has lowered the city taxes and also given added benefits to companies opening new factories in Dillton. This means that the revenues earned by the council has decreased. To keep pace with the changes in economy, the council might have terminated some of its employees. The loss of jobs will contribute to the number of unemployed people thereby not having the desired effect of decreasing unemployment rate.
Before concluding that the two new factories employ non-Dillton residents and hence the unemployment rate in the city has not decreased the author should consider the above points and negate them.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 125, Rule ID: LARGE_NUMBER_OF[1]
Message: Specify a number, remove phrase, or simply use 'many' or 'numerous'
Suggestion: many; numerous
...otal labor force of a region. There are a large number of factors that affect this ratio. First, ...
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Line 3, column 681, Rule ID: EN_COMPOUNDS
Message: This word is normally spelled as one.
Suggestion: fulltime
...oyed may not be interested in working a full time job, thereby not opting for a job even ...
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Discourse Markers used:
['also', 'but', 'first', 'hence', 'may', 'second', 'so', 'thus', 'while']
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance in Part of Speech:
Nouns: 0.266832917706 0.25644967241 104% => OK
Verbs: 0.16957605985 0.15541462614 109% => OK
Adjectives: 0.0847880299252 0.0836205057962 101% => OK
Adverbs: 0.0399002493766 0.0520304965353 77% => OK
Pronouns: 0.0149625935162 0.0272364105082 55% => OK
Prepositions: 0.127182044888 0.125424944231 101% => OK
Participles: 0.069825436409 0.0416121511921 168% => OK
Conjunctions: 2.60388118474 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Infinitives: 0.0124688279302 0.026700313972 47% => Some infinitives wanted.
Particles: 0.0 0.001811407834 0% => OK
Determiners: 0.13216957606 0.113004496875 117% => OK
Modal_auxiliary: 0.0324189526185 0.0255425247493 127% => OK
WH_determiners: 0.00997506234414 0.0127820249294 78% => OK
Vocabulary words and sentences:
No of characters: 2242.0 2731.13054187 82% => OK
No of words: 370.0 446.07635468 83% => OK
Chars per words: 6.05945945946 6.12365571057 99% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.38581623665 4.57801047555 96% => OK
words length more than 5 chars: 0.372972972973 0.378187486979 99% => OK
words length more than 6 chars: 0.254054054054 0.287650121315 88% => OK
words length more than 7 chars: 0.172972972973 0.208842608468 83% => OK
words length more than 8 chars: 0.127027027027 0.135150697306 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.60388118474 2.79052419416 93% => OK
Unique words: 176.0 207.018472906 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.475675675676 0.469332199767 101% => OK
Word variations: 49.9625345498 52.1807786196 96% => OK
How many sentences: 17.0 20.039408867 85% => OK
Sentence length: 21.7647058824 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Sentence length SD: 55.4363003005 57.7814097925 96% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.882352941 141.986410481 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7647058824 23.2022227129 94% => OK
Discourse Markers: 0.529411764706 0.724660767414 73% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 5.14285714286 78% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 3.58251231527 56% => OK
Readability: 47.1701112878 51.9672348444 91% => OK
Elegance: 2.06666666667 1.8405768891 112% => OK
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.376612238765 0.441005458295 85% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence: 0.126800793096 0.135418324435 94% => OK
Sentence sentence coherence SD: 0.073776620428 0.0829849096947 89% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence: 0.554617387407 0.58762219726 94% => OK
Sentence paragraph coherence SD: 0.180800025023 0.147661913831 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169554776475 0.193483328276 88% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0905687057739 0.0970749176394 93% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence: 0.533011203169 0.42659136922 125% => OK
Paragraph paragraph coherence SD: 0.0124489395396 0.0774707102158 16% => Paragraphs are so close to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.302436450619 0.312017818177 97% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0315794498851 0.0698173142475 45% => OK
Task Achievement:
Sentences with positive sentiment : 4.0 8.33743842365 48% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 9.0 6.87684729064 131% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.82512315271 83% => OK
Positive topic words: 4.0 6.46551724138 62% => OK
Negative topic words: 9.0 5.36822660099 168% => OK
Neutral topic words: 3.0 2.82389162562 106% => OK
Total topic words: 16.0 14.657635468 109% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
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Rates: 58.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.5 Out of 6 -- The score is based on the average performance of 20,000 argument essays. This e-grader is not smart enough to check on arguments.
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