Given a disfluent sentence, modify the sentence to it to its equivalent fluent form, preserving the meaning of the sentence.

Q: What combined with rising rather lowering prices to make it difficult or impossible for poor people to keep pace?

A: What combined with lowering prices to make it difficult or impossible for poor people to keep pace?
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Q: What factors positively impacted Jacksonville following the war or rather negatively impacted it after the war?

A: What factors negatively impacted Jacksonville following the war?
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Q: What does er when economic inequality is larger, more waste and pollution is?

A:
When economic inequality is larger, more waste and pollution is?
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