The gap between the rich and the poor is becoming wider, the rich are getting richer, the poor even more poorer. What problems can the situation cause and suggest solutions.
In this day and age, the gap between the affluent and the needy has increasingly widened. Such situation can be found not only between the developed and developing countries, but also among people of the same country. This essay intends to analyse the problems caused by this phenomenon, and suggest ways to mitigate the problem.
The most significant problem is that a vicious cycle emerges from which the poor find it difficult to come out. In order to make both ends meet, both parents have to work for supplementary income and the children are left in the house, unattended. Their future becomes blurred, as they don’t get quality education. This deprivation of the children is very high in ultra-poor families.
Furthermore, poverty and conditions resulting from poverty, such as lack of education leads people to lawlessness and violence (for example robbery, theft, kidnapping, rape, murder, gang war, and drug addiction). Their pent-up desires for the finer things in life find a common outlet in the commission of crimes. The underdeveloped economies of Asia and even America are full of high crime rates due to poverty. Finally, the rich-poor gap alienates the poor in a discriminated manner. This invites the onset of revolution or terrorism. To illustrate, the political history of the global community such as Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Indonesia, and Philippines is abundant in poverty related evolution of these events.
The solutions are not simple and steps should be taken on a war footing. The government effort could improve this situation. To begin with, luxuries should be taxed heavily. A balanced taxation should be there and the taxation administration should be improved to ward off fraud and evasion of taxes. Penalties against tax fraud and evasion should be more severe. Policymakers also need to focus on pushing up the bottom rather than dragging down the top. Free or highly subsidized education should be provided to the needy. The problem of youth unemployment should be dealt with by creating job opportunities. Self-employment should be encouraged by promoting small-scale industry. At the global level, international aid for poor countries is crucial for mitigating this phenomenon. International organizations, such as United Nations and World Bank, should provide support to developing countries in both technical and financial fields enabling them to improve infrastructure and strengthen industries.
Summing up, the increasing gap between the rich and the poor should not be ignored as it causes political and social instability in the country and effective steps should be taken to close this gap. It has been rightly said that – ‘Inequality is not just bad for social justice; it is also bad for economic efficiency’.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, furthermore, if, so, then, for example, such as, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 7.85571142285 178% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 10.4138276553 221% => Less conjunction wanted
Relative clauses : 3.0 7.30460921844 41% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 19.0 24.0651302605 79% => OK
Preposition: 57.0 41.998997996 136% => OK
Nominalization: 16.0 8.3376753507 192% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2342.0 1615.20841683 145% => OK
No of words: 439.0 315.596192385 139% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.33485193622 5.12529762239 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.57737117129 4.20363070211 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.04867349087 2.80592935109 109% => OK
Unique words: 260.0 176.041082164 148% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.592255125285 0.561755894193 105% => OK
syllable_count: 725.4 506.74238477 143% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 5.43587174349 129% => OK
Article: 10.0 2.52805611222 396% => Less articles wanted as sentence beginning.
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 0.809619238477 494% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 5.0 4.76152304609 105% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 26.0 16.0721442886 162% => OK
Sentence length: 16.0 20.2975951904 79% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 48.0345813547 49.4020404114 97% => OK
Chars per sentence: 90.0769230769 106.682146367 84% => OK
Words per sentence: 16.8846153846 20.7667163134 81% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.15384615385 7.06120827912 45% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.38176352705 114% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 7.0 8.67935871743 81% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 14.0 3.9879759519 351% => Less negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 3.4128256513 147% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.172384834869 0.244688304435 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0448403635126 0.084324248473 53% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0699161003715 0.0667982634062 105% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.105777579218 0.151304729494 70% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0438212403788 0.056905535591 77% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.1 13.0946893788 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 46.78 50.2224549098 93% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.3001002004 95% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 12.4159519038 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.57 8.58950901804 111% => OK
difficult_words: 143.0 78.4519038076 182% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 9.78957915832 117% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.4 10.1190380762 83% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 10.7795591182 111% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 89.8876404494 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 8.0 Out of 9
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