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ATHENS — Greece lost its financial lifelines Tuesday, as the country missed a crucial payment to the International Monetary Fund amid growing questions about whether it would be able to remain in the euro zone. Greece asks for third European bailout hours before default deadline - The Washington Post

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is self-described as being responsible for

the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to transact with each other.

Essentially, it works as an organization that enforces rules established by the credit community between nation-states. Partly for this reason, the IMF programs have not substantially eradicated poverty in the Third World since loans are given to governments but paid for by citizens in nations without much in the way of capital, regardless of whether they approved the policy or not.

As is the case in Greece, the IMF will usually require a nation to engage in a “structural readjustment program” (SAP). These programs are meant to maximize profits by shifting government spending from public programs to private firms, namely by substantially cutting taxes, welfare programs, and regulation in a bid to help attract capital and spur economic activity.

However, in Greece as in most of the Third World, these programs won’t change much.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is self-described as being responsible for

>[the stability of the international monetary system—the system of exchange rates and international payments that enables countries (and their citizens) to transact with each other.](https://www.imf.org/external/about.htm)

Essentially, it works as an organization that enforces rules established by the credit community between nation-states. [Partly for this reason, the IMF programs have not substantially eradicated poverty in the Third World](http://fee.org/freeman/detail/perpetuating-poverty-the-world-bank-the-imf-and-the-developing-world) since loans are given to governments but paid for by citizens in nations without much in the way of capital, regardless of whether they approved the policy or not.

As is the case in Greece, the IMF will usually require a nation to engage in a "structural readjustment program" (SAP). These programs are meant to [maximize profits by shifting government spending from public programs to private firms](http://fpif.org/structural_adjustment_programs/), namely by substantially cutting taxes, welfare programs,  and regulation in a bid to help attract capital and spur economic activity.

However, in Greece [as in most of the Third World](http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/may/13/imf-us-congress-aid), these programs [won't change much](http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jun/30/greek-debt-troika-analysis-says-significant-concessions-still-needed).

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President Barack Obama wears a FitBit monitor on his wrist to count his steps and calories, and has waxed poetic about the power of wearable technology to “give each of us information that allows us to stay healthier.” What Washington really knows about the Internet of Things

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There are a multitude of Fitbit trackers available but generally they are meant to collect as much information about a person’s daily routine. With that data, Fitbit attempts to help create a health profile that is more personal and responsive to day to day events or trends than traditional mediums such as a doctor’s profile of your health.

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My seat is back, I'm too relaxed, not moving out this car Vince Staples (Ft. Daley) – Birds & Bees

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The car serves as a metaphor for the way things are moving in his life right now.

Vince’s seat is laid back, things are comfortable for him right now so there’s no reason to adjust anything.

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The Top 10 program has produced significant racial and ethnic diversity. In recent years, about 25 percent of freshmen who enrolled under the program were Hispanic, and 6 percent were black. Supreme Court Will Reconsider Affirmative Action Case - The New York Times

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The Top 10 program has allowed for enrollment to more or less match demographics of the state of Texas. Texas, as of the 2013 Cenus, has a 32% Hispanic population and a 12% Black population.

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Most applicants from Texas are admitted under a part of the program that guarantees admission to the top students in every high school in the state. (This is often called the Top 10 program, though the percentage cutoff can vary by year.) Supreme Court Will Reconsider Affirmative Action Case - The New York Times

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Widely known as the Top 10% Program , the program also has scholarships available for students in the top 10%.

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In 2013, Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, writing for the majority, said the appeals court had been insufficiently skeptical of the program, which has unusual features. The appeals court then endorsed the program for a second time. Supreme Court Will Reconsider Affirmative Action Case - The New York Times

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Justice Kennedy’s position traces further back but serves as a good introduction to the arguments against higher education affirmative actions by American liberals.

Kennedy has held time and time again that

universities could take race into account in order to create diverse classes. But he argued that race should be “one modest factor among many others” — and that universities were instead treating it as “a predominant factor,” which was unconstitutional.

His position may turn out to be the one that defines the future of affirmative action in higher education–race used only as one of many factors only after race-neutral approaches are exhausted and found to be insufficient.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to take a second look at a challenge to the use of race in admissions decisions by the University of Texas at Austin, reviving a potent challenge to affirmative action in higher education. Supreme Court Will Reconsider Affirmative Action Case - The New York Times

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Most of the commentary around affirmative action focuses solely on its role in higher education but this is a diminution of the policy and its huge successes. Affirmative action was first introduced under President John F. Kennedy in 1961 when an executive order declared that federal contractors were required to

take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.

It was President Lyndon B Johnson who later expanded this to include sex as a category safe from discrimination and it is in this context that affirmative action provides the largest benefits.

The greatest beneficiaries to affirmative action are actually white women, whom like blacks “were once considered property — not allowed to own property themselves and not allowed to vote”.

Women have, through affirmative action policies, gained access to employment and education opportunities that would otherwise be absent without these federal protections against discrimination.

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>[take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin.](http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/history/35th/thelaw/eo-10925.html)

It was President Lyndon B Johnson who later expanded this [to include sex as a category safe from discrimination ](http://www.oeod.uci.edu/aa.html)and it is in this context that affirmative action provides the largest benefits.

The greatest beneficiaries to affirmative action are actually [white women](http://ideas.time.com/2013/06/17/affirmative-action-has-helped-white-women-more-than-anyone/), whom like blacks "were once considered property — not allowed to own property themselves and not allowed to vote".

Women have, through affirmative action policies, [gained access to employment and education opportunities](http://www.timwise.org/1998/09/is-sisterhood-conditional-white-women-and-the-rollback-of-affirmative-action/) that would otherwise be absent without these federal protections against discrimination.

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The greatest beneficiaries to affirmative action are actually white women, whom like blacks “were once considered property — not allowed to own property themselves and not allowed to vote”.

SO TRUE! Nice tate.

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