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The article reports on the case of open masturbation in prison including Howard against Cook County Sheriff's Office, Rodgers against Ohio Department of Rehabilitation & Corrections, and Hicks against Alabama.

We document that banks reduce supply of jumbo mortgage loans when policy uncertainty increases as measured by the timing of US gubernatorial elections in banks' headquarter states. The reduction is larger for more uncertain elections. We utilize high-frequency, geographically granular loan data to address an identification problem arising from changing demand for loans: (1) the microeconomic data allow for state/time (quarter) fixed effects; (2) we observe banks reduce lending not just in their home states but also outside their home states when their home states hold elections; (3) we observe important cross-sectional differences in the way banks with different characteristics respond to policy uncertainty. Overall, the findings suggest that policy uncertainty has a real effect on residential housing markets through banks credit supply decisions and that it can spill over across states through lending by banks serving multiple states. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a report by the Congressional Research Service which suggests decrease in life expectancy for individuals with lower socioeconomic status in the U.S. along with evidence and implications for the social security retirement age. It mentions that social security enables monthly benefits to retired, disabled and deceased workers along and their dependents. It also discusses the social security reform proposals related to need for increasing retirement age.

Rural areas have been shedding jobs and population for decades, but the problems are growing worse. Farm consolidation has reduced the number of agricultural jobs, while thousands of factories in rural areas have closed due to automation and overseas competition. Although some rural communities are doing well, hundreds have high levels of poverty and unemployment. Because of the poor economic prospects, rural counties typically lose up to a third of their high school classes within two years of graduation as young adults flee to metropolitan areas where jobs are more plentiful. Those left behind tend to be older, and many have severe health problems. Addiction and suicide are on the rise, and life expectancy is dropping. During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump pledged to bring manufacturing and mining jobs back to such areas, which voted overwhelmingly for him. But some observers warn that his policies on immigration, trade and health care, as well as his proposed budget cuts, could hurt rural America. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]