Cinco de Mayo: Changing the Narrative

Cortez Deacetis

Cinco de Mayo is an opportunity to rejoice Hispanic or Mexican heritage with your students. But Cinco de Mayo’s significance is generally misunderstood and misrepresented, inspite of the relevance of honoring the day with historical precision, an comprehension of cultural appropriation, and wealthy stories of Hispanic and Mexican culture.   

Infrastructure for a Changing Climate

Cortez Deacetis

Local weather transform and its extremes — larger temperatures, rising sea concentrations, a lot more extreme hurricanes — pose a wide variety of threats to U.S. infrastructure. In a June discussion, NAE President John Anderson and former USACE Chief Engineer Thomas Bostick explored these hazards and how the country can […]

To Improve Measurement of Changing Nature of Employment, Bureau of Labor Statistics Should Add Questions, Make Other Changes to Workforce Survey

Cortez Deacetis

To far better evaluate the modifying mother nature of work, independent contracting and freelance get the job done, and work with unstable hours, a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Drugs suggests that the U.S. Division of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Studies (BLS) add questions to […]