Sentence examples for expanding gap between from inspiring English sources

A key challenge for the international community is narrowing the rapidly expanding gap between rich and poor people.

David Kuziemko Sterling Heights, Mich., Oct. 27, 2009 • To the Editor: David Brooks dances around the real issue of executive compensation: in the last 30 years there has been a rapidly expanding gap between the top salaries and those of the lower ranks.

Heading into the elections, the foremost issue for Israeli voters appeared to be the rising cost of living and expanding gap between rich and poor.

No, the American system of higher education is not to blame, rather corporate greed and an ever-expanding gap between the super-rich (1 percenters) and everyone else (99 percenters) fueled by a focus on quarterly dividends instead of long-term sustainability and growth are the culprits.

What drove me into education is the exact problem that Ms. Kafka and many others write about — the expanding education gap between the richest and poorest.

The study also noted that while the firearm death rate in other countries fell between 2003 and 2010, it was unchanged in the United States, further expanding the gap between this country and the others.

So before the United States continues on its current road of dismantling its version of the welfare state, of shredding its social safety net, of expanding the gap between rich and poor, Americans might do well to glance south.

Tax Inequality Itself," by Ian Ayres and Aaron S. Edlin (Op-Ed, Dec. 19), proposing an extra tax limiting the incomes of the top 1 percent of earners to 36 times the median household income: Professors Ayres and Edlin have proposed an ingenious solution to the insidious problem of the expanding income gap between the rich and everyone else.

It is important to note that although all four are important issues and have serious national implications, the two most pressing concerns are the peace process and the alarmingly expanding social gap between the rich and the poor.

Like Occupy, Hazare's grand grievance is the wholesale diversion of wealth from the middle class and poor to the unworthy few — in India's case through payoffs, patronage and thievery, in America's through tax and regulatory policies that have expanded the gap between the richest few and everyone else.

It expands the gap between valence and conduction band.