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Leading by Listening: Randy Boyd seeks route to success for more high school graduates
Products: 4,000 technology-based pet products under brand names such as Invisible Fence, PetSafe, SportDOG and Premier.
Sales: $300 million
Employees: 600 in seven countries
Animal welfare: Created six public dogs parks in the Knoxville area; supported development of Animal Adoption Center in Knoxville and Blount County Animal Center; funded PetSafe Chair of companion animal behavior at the University of Tennessee College of Veterinary Medicine.
Randy Boyd readily admits his first foray into education reform met a brick wall.
As a Doyle High School student, he spearheaded an effort to prove that open classrooms — a 1970s-era education fad that he says "as a student with ADHD I did not do well in" — were ineffective learning environments. He learned, however, that change within school systems is complicated, when his move was quickly thwarted by school administrators who did not want to step on the toes of their boss, who had championed the new classrooms.
His open-classroom experience notwithstanding, Boyd went on to earn an industrial management degree from the University of Tennessee.
As the story goes, he was working in his father Tom Boyd's farm products businesses, eventually running a related distribution company, when he came up with the idea for a fence with buried wire and a radio collar to keep dogs confined.
He founded Radio Systems Corp. in 1991, and continues to serve as chairman, CEO and majority shareholder of the 600-employee Knoxville-based company, with sales of more than $300 million.
Along the way, he remained interested in education, not only as the father with wife, Jenny, of two sons, but also as a volunteer, fundraiser and donor for the Boy Scouts and Junior Achievement, of which he's served as a teacher since 1992 and was inducted into its East Tennessee Business Hall of Fame in 2008. He served on charities' boards of directors, and wrote checks for a variety of causes.
But his re-entry in a substantive way into the politics of education reform didn't come until decades later when he asked then-Knox County Mayor Mike Ragsdale for help in making Knoxville America's most pet-friendly city by supporting the development of dog parks and other pet-friendly amenities and policies.
"He asked me in return if I would help him create his vision for what we were to call KnoxAchieves, and that was making sure that every high school graduate had the opportunity to go to college, with no financial barriers and with a mentor," Boyd recalls.
34,000 - High school students given opportunity to attend community college at no cost to them and with mentor support since the program's founding in 2008
75 percent - Fall-to-spring retention rate
68 percent - Fall-to-fall retention rate.
65 - Percent of tnAchieves students who are first-generation college students
23 - Counties in Tennessee where tnAchieves is operating
20,000 - Hours of community service logged by tnAchieves students
Website: www.tnachieves.org/
Founded in 2008, KnoxAchieves — now being replicated statewide as tnAchieves — has raised most of its money in the private sector to pay for scholarships and engaged volunteers to shepherd some 34,000 students through the financial aid and college enrollment process.
Among the program's early supporters was then-Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, who after becoming governor worked with Boyd and others to roll out the program statewide with a $1 million state grant that requires a match from private donations.
And Haslam also tapped Boyd for another challenge: help ensure that nearly 500,000 Tennesseans — or 55 percent of the state's workforce — have completed post-secondary training by 2025.
Boyd jokes that Haslam asked him to serve as his top adviser on higher education "because I have two unique qualifications that would be very rare and special — I am willing to work for free and I am not encumbered by any knowledge of the subject."
On a more serious note, Boyd says he believes Haslam is "very passionate about making a difference in higher education, but, as he told me, in his best week he could spare maybe four hours to work on it — he just has so many other responsibilities. So I am helping him by providing another 40, 50, 60 hours a week to help him scan the landscape and determine what are some of the best ideas to improve higher education."
'Reallocate, reprioritize'
Monday through Thursday, Boyd sets up shop at the Tennessee Higher Education Commission's Nashville offices. On Fridays, his office is a small, former conference room with windows to UT library's reference room.
Those setups, at no cost to the state, and the fact he is working without a salary, mirror that one of the parameters in which he is working "is that we are not going to have any additional resources," he says. "We have to find solutions by becoming more efficient and smarter."
The mission strikes at the core of what Boyd — a significant donor to presidential candidate Mitt Romney and Republican congressional candidates — sees as a great societal challenge: the inequality of wealth. He equates that, in large part, to inequality in education.
"Going from 32 (percent college graduates) to 55 percent is not just some altruistic goal — it's mission critical," he says. "For every percentage we miss, that is a percentage of our population that is going to be either unemployed or underemployed. We have to provide at least the opportunity for everybody to be successful."
Having established 55 percent as the target, he's working with UT faculty to determine "exactly what 55 percent looks like," he says, in terms of what and how many jobs will be available in specific fields.
"Once we have that map of each particular field, we will look at what kind of training is neccessary to get that job, and then look at where we are today and start developing strategies to build that pipeline."
While that work is under way, Boyd is proceeding under a couple of assumptions: Attendance at technical colleges and community colleges will likely grow at a faster rate than at four-year colleges, and that even if 100 percent of the 20,000 students Tennessee high schools graduate each year completed post-secondary training that number wouldn't be enough.
"It's mathematically impossible to get there through the K-12 population," Boyd says. "The only way we get there is to have adults go back and complete degree or certificates."
Haslam took a step toward that end in announcing the state's intention to partner with Western Governors University, which allows students to earn degrees online and receive college credits by testing proficient in certain subjects, without the need to attend — or pay — for a course. The governor says WSU Tennessee will be aimed at the 800,000 Tennesseans who have some college credit but didn't graduate.
That initiative, which also incorporates career coaches and tutors, will still yield only a fraction of the needed adults with degrees, 20,000 to 30,000, Boyd says. "So that is an important part, but it is certainly not going to be the only part of the overall strategy. We need to come up with even more opportunities for adults to go back and get degrees."
That will likely include some new construction where institutions have waiting lists or in areas where facilities don't exist, and likely more investments in technology.
Those strategies cost money, he acknowledges, "but I do think with the money we have already, there are ways we can possible reallocate and reprioritize to achieve some the things we want to achieve."
He notes that Tennessee ranks third in the country in the amount of tuition support it awards students, but ranks 42nd in residents who have completed post-secondary training.
"So it would be hard to argue that we are not giving our students enough money, but how we allocate it could be a question mark," he contends. "Thirty percent of all our tuition support goes to families making $97,000 or more. We need to look at those things."
Listening is job one
Boyd says he has interviewed "hundreds and hundreds of people across the state, and some outside the state, to get their ideas" on improving educational attainment.
"I have shared with everyone that there is no expectation for me as an individual to come up with a single idea — because I am going to be the person who channels other people's good ideas," Boyd says.
"My No. 1 job is to listen. There are a lot of good ideas out there and the ones we are going to focus on those that are going to drive us from 32 to 55 in the most material way."
Those who know Boyd says his ability to listen with an open mind is among his greatest assets.
Richard Ray, co-founder and CFO of 21st Mortgage, former Clayton Homes executive and a member of Radio Systems' board of directors since 1994, says when Boyd selected his board he challenged himself by seeking out "real successful business people to fill in the gaps of things he didn't know."
"At the core, Randy has not changed as a CEO in the 19 years I have known him," Ray says. "He is high energy, has an inquisitive mind, and is very much into continuing education on a personal level. He encourages his staff and pays for them to take the same courses he took."
Ray and Tim Williams, co-founder and CEO of 21st Mortgage, were also recruited by Boyd to serve on tnAchieves' board of directors and lead fundraising efforts.
Ray, a first-generation college graduate himself, has served as a mentor in the program since its inception. "I feel like I have made a significant difference in their lives," he says.
Boyd's personal involvement in education also sets him apart from many education reformers, Ray believes. "It's one thing to throw money at stuff, and it's another thing to really get down in the trenches, to see the day-to-day, nut-and-bolts of what it is like in schools and see how tragic some of these family situations are."
Dr. Bob Kronick, a University of Tennessee professor, was introduced to Boyd by Dwight Van de Vate, who was working as a senior director at the time for Mayor Ragsdale.
Van de Vate had heard Boyd discuss his interest in opening a charter school to ensure that children's needs were being met beyond the classroom and in the evening hours, with tutors, health professionals and other assistance for not only them, but their families, as well.
Kornick has long championed a similar concept, university-assisted community schools, but in the setting of existing public schools.
The two met a half-dozen times, with Kronick showing him programs he had developed at Sarah Moore Greene Elementary School and Sam E. Hill Preschool, primarily with volunteer help from UT students and others, and expressing his desire for the money to implement a full-scale program.
Eventually, Kronick recalls Boyd asked him how much he needed to create a full-service school in Knox County. "I said I need a $100,000 to get started, and he said, 'That sounds like a lot of money.' So I said, 'That $100,000 is what it would cost to lock up three kids in Mountain View (a state-operated juvenile detention facility) for one year. Look at it in terms of alternative costs — you can take care of 40 kids for 48 weeks or you can lock up three kids for 48 weeks, same price.
"And he said, 'Done,' and we have never argued price again," Kronick says.
34 percent - Decrease in absences
33 percent - Decrease in tardiness
77 percent - Decrease in discipline referrals
43 percent - Improved overall grades in core subjects
8 - Out of top 11 students are community school participants
Instead, Boyd has continued to increase his commitment, in both time and money, to Pond Gap Elementary School and its university-assisted community school.
Photographs attest to the entrepreneur, CEO and philanthropist donning a Pilgrim outfit to celebrate Thanksgiving and deliver turkeys to the school. He and his family attend holiday celebrations. He has a little brother there through Big Brothers Big Sisters. He has hosted the students at Wasabi Japanese Steakhouse and on a field trip to his own company.
"Randy gives of himself, and that is what makes him so different from many philanthropists," Kronick says. "One of his greatest gifts is to be there."
Boyd's interest in Pond Gap may have been spurred by the community school concept, but his generosity has extended beyond the after-school and summer program, says Susan Epiritu, the school's principal.
Two years ago, he bought all fifth-graders iPads to use in class — none have been broken, lost or stolen — and this year gave teachers tablets, as well. He's sponsored the fourth- and fifth-graders participation in JA's Biztown curriculum, including the field trip to Clinton.
"He is very invested in the learning of the kids in this program, and making sure they have every opportunity, not just the learning tools, but the social experiences as well," she says.
He also works to recruit other community partners to get involved in the school, where volunteers include students to senior citizens.
Espiritu is a decorated educator, one of just 60 named in 2012 National Distinguished Principals by the National Association of Elementary School Principals. She isn't hesitant about voicing her ideas and opinions to Boyd, and he welcomes them, she says.
"I think it bothers him when other career people try to tell educators what they need to do; he wants to hear what you have to say," she says. "He doesn't want to try and recreate the wheel, he realizes the difference in expertise."
Boyd says the contrast between Webb School of Knoxville, the private school his sons attended, and Pond Gap are stark, and he worries without reform the "disparity and inequality is going to be far greater 10 years from now than it is today."
Still, he argues he benefits just as much from his relationship with Pond Gap, as do the staff and students.
"I think I have like 10 meetings back to back today," he said during a Friday afternoon in March. "My reward at the end of the day is at 4 when I get to go hang out with the kids at Pond Gap — that's the treat if I can survive. It is incredibly rewarding that you are, maybe, helping those kids with so much promise, hope and enthusiasm."
Age: 53
Title: Chairman, CEO, majority shareholder of Radio Systems Corp., which he founded in 1991; special adviser on higher education to Gov. Bill Haslam
Professional service: Board of directors, Clayton Bank Corp.
Community service: Chairman, tnAchieves; board of directors, Innovation Valley, Webb School of Knoxville, Boys and Girls Clubs of Tennessee Valley, Great Smoky Mountain Heritage Center, National Parks Conservation Association, East Tennessee Historical Society, Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, Knoxville Zoo, University of Tennessee College of Business Dean's Advisory Council, University of Tennessee Alumni Association, Tennesseans for Economic Progress, and Knox County's Great Schools Partnership.
Awards: Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year for the Southeast in 2008, Tennessee Business Magazine's CEO of the Year in 2009, UT's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2009, inducted into Junior Achievement's East Tennessee Hall of Fame in 2008.
Education: Bachelor's degree, industrial management, University of Tennessee; master's degree, liberal studies, Oklahoma University
Family: Wife, Jenny, and two sons
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Duin, Julia, The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
First it was the Jews. Then it was the Hindus.
Now it's the Muslims who are being targeted for evangelism by the nation's largest Protestant denomination, America's 15.6 million Southern Baptists.
The Baptists' evangelistic prayer booklet is out just in time for the annual Islamic 30-day Ramadan fast, which begins either today or tomorrow depending on when the crescent moon appears.
The Southern Baptist International Mission Board's annual "Prayer for Muslims" booklet, "Ramadan: Fasting and Seeking God," has rated barely a yawn from Islamic groups since Baptists began issuing it five years ago.
With 9,000 missionaries in this country and abroad, the Southern Baptists have been known for their aggressive evangelism ever since the denomination's founding in 1845. But this year, evangelism of any sort has taken a hit.
When the Baptists announced they will send 100,000 missionaries to Chicago next summer, a coalition of the city's religious leaders, including Catholic Cardinal Francis George, protested.
The Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago shot off an alarmed letter to the Rev. Paige Patterson, president of the Southern Baptist Convention, asking him to desist.
Missionaries, said the letter, which was released simultaneously to the media, "could disrupt the pattern of peaceful interfaith relations in our community and unwittingly abet the designs of those who seek to provoke hate crimes by fomenting faith-based prejudice."
The Nov. 27 letter suggested the Baptists do service projects instead of evangelism, adding, "A campaign of the nature and scope you envision could contribute to a climate conducive to hate crimes."
Caught off guard by the publication of the letter in Chicago newspapers, the Southern Baptists responded that their main intention was to evangelize beyond their strongholds in the South.
"It's amazing, isn't it," said SBC spokesman Bill Merrell, "how telling people about God is called `hate speech.' "
Mr. Patterson's terse response, dated Nov. 29, blasted the council for trying to "intimidate rather than negotiate and to achieve the advantage of a pre-emptive strike."
He added, "If there is violence or `hate crimes,' such will not be perpetrated by Southern Baptists or in any way engendered by our compassionate message. To the contrary, we are much more likely to be the targets of such attacks.
"Furthermore, letters like the one that you wrote to the press, under the guise of writing to me, are more likely the stuff from which hate crimes emerge."
Two months before, Jewish groups nationwide had taken great umbrage at a "Days of Awe" prayer booklet, issued just before their high holy days Sept. 11-20. They did not respond favorably to the guide, even though the booklet seemed to go out of its way to explain Christianity's "uneven" track record in evangelizing Jews and instructed Baptists to "avoid any hint of superiority" in sharing the Gospel. In case readers didn't get that message, the cover photo was from Yad Vashem, the Jerusalem Holocaust memorial.
"I wish to remind Rev. Patterson that Jews don't like being targeted that way, and for good reason," said Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein of the Chicago-based International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. "Our history is rife with well-intentioned, supposedly `loving' efforts at targeted proselytizing by Christians who later turned to savage persecution and even pogroms when it became apparent we would not willingly abandon the faith of our fathers. …


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DO NOT look to Germany's World Cup to see real national heroes in action this month. Look, instead, to central London. They will not be complaining about the heat or their metatarsals, even though some of this lot can barely walk. They will all be infuriatingly modest, so much so that some will probably refuse to discuss why they are even there.
But every single one of them has done more for their country than any sporting contest will ever demand. Just don't pick a fight with them.
This coming week sees a series of celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the Victoria Cross, the most revered award for bravery in conflict. To date, 1,355 men have been awarded this crimsonribboned, bronze cross in recognition of ' conspicuous bravery or devotion to the country in the presence of the enemy'.
Today, just 12 of them survive around the world, and nine are well enough to make it to London.
Over three days, they will be entertained by the Queen, they will open a fascinating (and free) VC exhibition at the Guards Chapel at Wellington Barracks in central London on Wednesday, and there will be plenty of catching up.
This bold little group will also include two women for whom such occasions are always tinged with grief. Just two VCs were awarded after the Falklands War, both posthumously. But Sara Jones, widow of Colonel H. Jones VC, and Freda McKay, mother of Sergeant Ian McKay VC, are always included as honorary members.
They will be joined by 22 of the 24 surviving holders of the George Cross, the blue-ribboned medal for the 'greatest heroism or the most conspicuous courage in circumstances of extreme danger' - military or civilian.
One of them passed away, quietly, just a few days ago. Sir John Rowlands GC saved countless lives defusing Nazi bombs. They gave him a life expectancy of ten weeks at the time. He did it for the entire war.
These heroes are also in London to mark the 50th anniversary of their club, the VC and GC Association. It not only keeps them all in touch, but it raises funds to help needy widows or members and to maintain VC and GC graves.
On Monday they will join the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall for a special service at Westminster Abbey. There, too, will be 2,000 descendants and relations of everyone who has ever won a VC or a GC.
Some gene pool.
It will be an occasion for the rest of us to look on and ponder the eternal question: 'How did they do it?' Since no VC I have ever met likes to talk about his heroics, there seems only one way of winkling it out of him: get another VC to ask him.
So I have brought together the oldest VC and the youngest VC to discuss life, death and what it's like to straddle the gap.
ERIC WILSON and Johnson Beharry know all about it. They may have been different ranks from different backgrounds in different wars more than half a century apart. But they know what it is like to risk life and limb under enemy fire for the sake of their comrades. They just don't necessarily think of it as bravery.
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You just did what you had to do,' says Colonel Wilson, 93, looking out over the beautiful garden of his Dorset cottage as his wife, Joy, prepares lunch. Private Beharry, 26, is equally vague about this bravery business.
'My commanding officer always says: "You were a bloody idiot and thank God you were," ' he laughs. 'I had trained to be an infantry soldier, I loved being one, and I was just doing the job.' Touchingly, each is as impressed by the other as he is modest about himself. The younger man is gripped by the older's explanation of his battle tactics. The older is fascinated when Pte Beharry shows him the two battered, bloodstained helmets which saved his life.
Both are extremely proud that they share a regimental link.
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Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Madeline Mace Hevener of Buena Vista; four children, Gail Hevener Melkersen and husband, Ole, of New Market, Patty Hevener Lemon and husband, Wayne, Richard Loyd "Dickie" Hevener II and wife, Denise Mitchell Hevener, all of Buena Vista and Lorrie Hevener Roscher and husband, Fred, of Natural Bridge Station; four siblings, Maxine Sheffer, Joyce Miller and Bobby Hevener all of Churchville; Janet Harvey of Richmond; eight grandchildren, Michael Melkersen, Peggy Harris, Robert Melkersen, Jeffrey Lemon, Jenny Sue Hocking, Tiffany Hevener, Richard Loyd "Richie" Hevener III and Maggie Ann Roscher, as well as seven great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews.
Raised in Churchville, Mr. Hevener moved to Buena Vista, his wife's hometown, in 1950, and was in the saw mill business with his father-in-law, John Mace. In 1969, he took over the business and became a well-known contractor in Rockbridge County as he and his wife ran Hevener's Excavating Co. and Hevener's Mobile Homes for 34 years. He had a love of equipment and his specialty was the front-end loader. His work included flood clean up from Hurricane Camille, many finished landscapes in the area, as well as developing the roads in Glen Maury Park. He enjoyed a job well done and the satisfaction that comes with seeing the finished product.
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Hee...bet the chihuahua thinks the cats are chihuahuas...and the cats think the chihuahua's another sphynx.
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i want one! OF ALL THREE!
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am I the only one totally grossed out by this? I don't know why, but it gave me an ick feeling. vooom.
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This is cute! I am glad those cats are keeping that doggie young even in his old age.
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Awww! I love Sphynx cats!
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That was cute, they were just playing.
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I wanted to take a picture of the patio before tomorrow's anticipated (yet again) snowstorm. Mrs Bale will not be talking about it. She fears her language might get her thrown off the blog.
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Here in MTL its going to snow as well. I am so mad - its depressing! I hope it ends as quickly as possible.ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by! It hasn't started yet here, but it will soon. :<(ReplyDelete
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This is embarrassing, but on my original order of this litter...I can't lie - I completely hated it...especially alone and would have given it less than one star if possible.
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Tanner Almon is a photographer, a film-maker as well as an author and poet. He is a true artist of the French Académia of the 18th century. He is what is called a great visionary and let's be honest all the good ones are ones that think way out of the box!
My obsession with Furballs is quite obvious I think, from my picture in the team page. And I fell in love with Tanner Almon and his lovely wife Vicki's last year's Christmas sequence. The story of the furball series is what Tanner calls: A Christmas miracle. Tanner begged Santa for a Fuji Instax Mini Camera funny enough he got a from Santa- or his wife really- and they went to visit his parents in Baltimore to exchange gifts.
Tanner got Furball hats to the women in the house and they got pretty upset because it wasn't the gift they were expecting. Needless to say Vicki brought the unwanted gifts with them on the way back and the Furball story began. Tanner Almon experiences with other subjects too of course, involving Vicki again and creating photographs that are I-D material, namely:Apocalyptic Bunko and the Red Heads Dead Beds.
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Posted 25 November 2015
We are delighted to announce that Professor Simon Collinson, Dean of Birmingham Business School and Professor of International Business and Innovation has been appointed Chair of the Chartered Association of Business Schools.
Posted 23 November 2015
Professor of Marketing Isabelle Szmigin suggests that the demise of FHM and Zoo doesn't mean that lad culture is dead; the lads are just going elsewhere for the content.
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Posted 30 November 2015
A successful application has been made to the British Sociological Association to hold a regional cross-college Postgraduate day at the University of Birmingham on the theme of "Researching Social Inequality Across the Social Sciences".
Posted 26 November 2015
The David Rt Hon Blunkett discusses 'Democracy without education for citizenship equals a road to extremism' at the annual Priestley Lecture.
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This conference on Thursday 05 November 2015 explored immigration and migrant integration discourses and their influences on policy-making. The focus was on three countries: the UK, Germany and Russia.
Posted 20 November 2015
Dr Gëzim Alpion was a keynote speaker at the symposium "Skopje Honours Its Daughter Mother Teresa", which took place in Skopje on 12 September 2015. The event which was attended by Mother Teresa scholars from the United Kingdom, Albania, Kosova, and Macedonia, members of the diplomatic corps accredited to Skopje, politicians, religious personalities, and media representatives, was covered widely in the Balkans and generated a number of articles in India and the UK.
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University of Birmingham graduates have won awards at the 2015 Social Worker of the Year ceremony which took place on Friday 27 November.
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Europe, U.S. share same productivity, wage disparity
This explains why the campaign rhetoric stating that, "In a few years we're going to look just like Europe" is an appealing prospect to some and an appalling one to others.
The "European economy" is not a total reality, of course, and Europe is still a collection of independent countries that are unified for some things but still very possessive about their prerogatives. Despite their differences, however, European countries share some key structural characteristics that shape their economies.
The biggest structural difference is the role of government, not only as an economic control mechanism but also as a guarantor of income during and after working life.
Since they are democracies where government control reflects the collective will of the people, many, including some in the U.S., envy the economic stability and prosperity, which the European model has provided over the past half-century.
Europe's stability and prosperity are both threatened now, of course, by the financial stresses that caused the near collapse of Greece and are spreading anxiety and doubt throughout the European Community.
There is little question that the weaker economies of the community, currently referred to in financial markets as the PIGS -- Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain -- are collapsing of their own weight. The rates of economic growth in these countries will simply not support the government-underwritten life styles, which are an integral part of the European economic structure.
In Europe as a whole, what is especially worrisome is the possibility that the same economic structure that provides stability may also inhibit the rate of economic growth it needs to sustain itself.
This worry raises an interesting question that affects politics as well as economics: If the structural aspects of the European economic model were so flawed, why did it take so long to fail?
The economic reasons include Europe's ability to avoid some social costs through its dependency on America's defense systems and investments in health care technologies such as cost-saving pharmaceuticals and medical technology. Europe also benefitted from the American commitment to global free trade, while its formidable bureaucracy softened and delayed the impact on its own domestic markets and producers.
The distribution of social costs is not a matter of blame, accusation or hard feelings. The U.S. economy absorbed these costs because we believed they were in our best interest, and most of us wouldn't have it any other way, but it does explain why European countries took so long to realize that they had moved outside the sustainability model.
When it comes to taking a long time to recognize a problem, we've done a bit of that ourselves in our own country, of course. And, just as in Europe, the root causes of our economic problems are embedded in structural changes that we never bothered to address.
The Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., has put together a dramatic graphic showing the history of one of those unaddressed structural problems: linking productivity and wage compensation.
The link between productivity and wages had been an established part of economic theory for decades and up until the 1960s the two moved together like a winning "Dancing With The Stars" routine.
In the mid-1960s, though, we saw the first hint of trouble in the partnership. And in 1972 the two parted company. In the decades that followed, productivity soared and never looked back. Wage compensation languished without gain.
There are technical issues with the data, of course; there always are in economics. Productivity statistics are notoriously soft, especially in the service sector, which now makes up so much of our economy.
But you don't have to be an economist to see the story that the data is revealing: Something happened to the U.S. economy in the 1970s. It changed, it wasn't looking back, and it was a problem.
There are many reasons for the structural changes and the broken link between wages and productivity. Manufacturing became less dominant in the economy each successive year as service sector took over. Union membership declined steadily, only partly offset as teachers and other government service workers were organized into collective bargaining units. The workplace and the job market changed from the combined forces of technology, educational requirements and population growth from domestic and international sources.
Our country has some of the same structural elements that led Europe to its current crisis point. The American economy is still resilient, though, capable of responding to shocks and meeting challenges. If we address our structural economic problems, we can solve them in our own way and in our own time. If we don't, then shame on us.
James McCusker is a Bothell economist, educator and consultant. He also writes a monthly column for the Herald Business Journal.
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