The phrase "a more pervasive problem" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an issue that is widespread or deeply ingrained in a particular context or situation.
Example: "The rise of misinformation on social media is a more pervasive problem than many realize, affecting public opinion and trust."
Alternatives: "a more widespread issue" or "a more ingrained challenge."
Ms. Hamilton pointed to a more pervasive problem that extended beyond Connecticut: the decline in overall community participation in the United States.
"Do we have a single company, BP, that blundered with fatal consequences," asked the other co-chairman, William Reilly, "or a more pervasive problem of a complacent industry?" Sadly, Mr. Reilly said, it is the latter.
Commission co-chair William K Reilly said: "So a key question posed from the outset by this tragedy is, do we have a single company, BP, that blundered with fatal consequences, or a more pervasive problem of a complacent industry?
What has grabbed little attention is a more pervasive problem: the thousands of middlemen, sometimes illegals themselves, who entice foreigners to come to America, hook them up with menial jobs and take a substantial cut of their livelihoods, often for years, as the immigrants work off their debts.
We see these violations happening every day through modern-day racial profiling, which really become a more pervasive problem during the War on Drugs.
Further research is necessary to determine if this finding applies only to a Southern US city or is a more pervasive problem.
In my view, the political environment that has made it inhospitable for a moderate Republican in Pennsylvania is a microcosm of a deeper, more pervasive problem that places our party in jeopardy nationwide.
A lawyer for a California man whose wife died in a 2007 crash of a Camry said the company was avoiding a potentially more pervasive problem by focusing on mats and stuck pedals, rather than its electronics.
But it also reveals a larger, more pervasive problem: there are no meaningful standards of academic quality in higher education.
But the current collapse of the nation's housing industry has made abandoned housing a far more pervasive problem in Chicago and other cities.
Discrimination in the newsroom -- in hiring, in the quality of assignments and in promotions -- is a much more pervasive problem than Jayson Blair's aberrant behavior.
