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Everyone is worried about AI taking over jobs. Each week I’m deluged with papers trying to measure how “exposed” to AI competition each job is—and whether workers in these fields are suffering for it.
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The writers behind this newsletter.
The Manhattan Institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in America and its great cities.
Conservative economist and public speaker. From Venezuela. Fellow at the Manhattan Institute focused on immigration policy. Board of advisors member at Young America’s Foundation. Views are mine.
Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he writes on economic, energy, and environmental issues.
Stephen Eide is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and the author of Homelessness in America.
Jesse Arm is the vice president of external affairs at the Manhattan Institute, where he oversees communications, government relations, and polling.
Investigative Reporter for Manhattan Institute
Founder of Families for NY, Fellow at Manhattan Institute, Vice-President of CEC District2
Senior Fellow & Director of Cities at the Manhattan Institute
Dad of 3, Manhattan Institute Fellow, Institute for Family Studies Research Fellow, NRO Contributing Editor, CenterClip Contributor. Guitar player and metalhead. Opinions my own.
John Sailer is a senior fellow and director of higher education policy at the Manhattan Institute.
Husband, dad, and longtime think tank guy. Thinking, writing, and talking mostly (but not exclusively) about crime, policing, and criminal justice. Lawyer by training. Right-of-center. Brooklyn boy turned suburbanite.
Charles Fain Lehman is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and Senior Editor of City Journal. Opinions here are my own.
Director of constitutional studies at the Manhattan Institute. Defender of free speech & intellectual diversity. Author of Supreme Disorder, Lawless, and the Shapiro's Gavel newsletter. I write about law, liberty & the pursuit of happiness.
Dario Marino is an Economic Policy Fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He is the author of The Optimizers, an economics newsletter
Director of Public Opinion at the Manhattan Institute. All opinions are my own (especially the bad ones).
A man and his books || Policy Analyst, Manhattan Institute
Adam Lehodey is an investigative reporter covering New York politics, economics and cultural issues. Beyond those topics, he publishes diverse essays on philosophy, urbanism and travel on his site: adamlehodey.com
Valerie Franchitti is a Research Assistant at the Manhattan Institute, where she focuses on policy issues related to serious mental illness and psychiatric treatment.
K-12 and Higher Ed Policy at Manhattan Institute. Opinions mine.
Counterintuitive perspectives on improving state capacity and government outcomes
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