Did you know that the teen gonorrhea rate in the US is over 74 times higher than in France? I know, its shocking! That juicy tidbit is from a factsheet produced by Healthy Teen Network, which you can find in IssueLab's April/May CloseUp on Sex ed and abstinence programs. A quick review of the research in this CloseUp is a good reminder that different populations have unique characteristics and educational n ...

When news of mass layoffs became unavoidable, IssueLab (a publishing forum for nonprofit research) unearthed a widely scattered body of research about how this affects people with disabilities (PWD). With proven discrimination against job seekers with disabilities and an increasingly competitive labor market, it is only becoming tougher for PWD to find and retain employment. Some of the issues faced by this ...