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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research A think tank working to keep America and its great cities prosperous, safe, and free.

A leading free-market think tank focusing on economic growth, education, energy/environment, health care, legal reform, public sector, race, & urban policy

10/19/2026

$122 for three items from a Thai takeout place?

Blame sky-high minimum wages for delivery drivers: Seattle passed legislation that guarantees a $26 minimum wage for drivers. Other cities have done the same.

Judge G***k, MI's Director of Research and Senior Fellow, tells John Stossel: "You have, frankly, usually an economically illiterate city council or mayor who comes in and thinks basically by looking at an industry through reading the daily news, they can appropriately regulate the exact wage."

10/19/2026

"We're basically teaching kids report every single slight and escalate the problem, and then we're making schools address that...it's totally backwards."

MI fellow Carolyn Gorman explains how anti-bullying laws have gone too far:

10/16/2026

School leaders should improve instruction, support teachers, and intervene when students fall behind. Authority has to come with responsibility for results.

MI's Jennifer Weber on her latest City Journal piece.

10/16/2026

Communism kills kindness.

"During Stalin's forced collectivization campaigns, Lev Kopelev describes being horrified at hearing the screams of children. And then upon feeling compassion he immediately reprimands himself because you shouldn't be feeling this way, you shouldn't be feeling compassion, you shouldn't be feeling sympathy, because all of this is in service of the communist ideology...
..we're seeing, I think, some echoes of this today where if you are a member of the wrong class or category then you shouldn't feel sympathy. You actually should be celebrated for being cruel to that person."

MI's Dr. Rob Henderson on Ben Shapiro.

10/15/2026

DOGE worked.

MI's Judge G***k breaks down his latest in City Journal.

In a new report, MI senior fellow Stephen Eide argues that expanding recovery housing programs could reduce homelessness...
10/15/2026

In a new report, MI senior fellow Stephen Eide argues that expanding recovery housing programs could reduce homelessness rates. Recovery housing is an intermediate-length residential program for people in recovery from drug or alcohol addiction.

Read the full report via the link in our bio.

10/14/2026

Zohran Mamdani says New York is “OPEN for Business,” but his POWER bill could put thousands of small businesses at risk.

MI’s Santiago Vidal Calvo explains.

10/13/2026

Governor Hochul announced that New York is officially opting into the Federal Scholarship Tax Credit Program.

MI’s Danyela Souza Egorov explains what this means for New York families and whether other Democratic-led states will opt into the program.

10/13/2026

Americans have never been richer, so why do so many feel like the economy is broken?

MI's Allison Schrager explains how the shift toward an intangible economy may be part of the answer. Even as young Americans build wealth through investments, homeownership remains out of reach for many—and financial wealth can’t fully replace the security and satisfaction of owning a home.

Thanks to civilian complaints against cops, a felony threshold nobody can prove, and lax prosecutions, the market hasn’t...
10/13/2026

Thanks to civilian complaints against cops, a felony threshold nobody can prove, and lax prosecutions, the market hasn’t missed a day of business.

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