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Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

American conservative think tank

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Nov 25, 2025
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What is going on with the Minnesota somali fraud scam.

Federal prosecutors have charged scores of people in multiple Minnesota fraud cases that involve programs such as Feeding Our Future, Medicaid Housing Stabilization Services (HSS), and autism services...

Nov 28, 2025
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When did Minnesota authorities first open investigations into Somali-targeted fraud scams and what were the key milestones?

Minnesota authorities’ investigations into fraud schemes tied to members of the Somali community span several years and involve multiple large cases that federal prosecutors have said amounted to “hun...

Nov 23, 2025
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how much does it cost taxpayers to support illegal immigrants

Estimates of the taxpayer cost of “illegal immigration” vary widely: a 2024 FAIR study puts the annual fiscal burden at roughly $151 billion and calculates a per-taxpayer hit near $1,156 ($957 after a...

Oct 1, 2025

how much do illegal aliens cost tax payers?

Estimates of how much "illegal aliens" cost U.S. taxpayers diverge sharply because researchers measure different things: one line of work finds undocumented immigrants paid roughly , while other analy...

Nov 1, 2025

Do illegal immigrants provide a net positive or net negative impact on the US economy?

Undocumented immigration presents a net-positive impact on the U.S. economy in aggregate under most mainstream models, but significant mean impacts vary across groups and policies. Widely cited empiri...

Jan 30, 2026

How many black v white people has police killed in us in recent years

Across recent years, independent trackers and academic studies converge on roughly 900–1,100 people killed by U.S. police each year, with White victims numerically larger but Black victims dramaticall...

Dec 11, 2025

Are republicans racist

Public reporting shows specific, documented incidents of racist language by some Republican-affiliated individuals — notably leaked Young Republicans group chats containing racial slurs, antisemitic c...

Dec 1, 2025

How many major riots occurred in the U.S. during Barack Obama’s presidency (2009–2017)?

There is no single, authoritative count in the available sources of how many “major riots” took place in the U.S. during Barack Obama’s presidency (2009–2017). Contemporary reporting and retrospective...

Nov 16, 2025

What are the top 5 safest blue states and red states in 2024 based on crime rates?

Available reporting shows multiple 2024 rankings and federal datasets that can be used to identify the “safest” states, but there is no single authoritative list in the supplied sources that explicitl...

Dec 19, 2025

What evidence exists about how much undocumented immigrants pay in federal, state, and local taxes compared with the public benefits they receive?

Multiple independent analyses find that undocumented immigrants pay tens of billions of dollars a year in federal, state, and local taxes—estimates cluster around $90–$100 billion for 2022–2023—while ...

Nov 25, 2025

Are illegal immigrants a net fiscal drain ?

Academic and policy analyses disagree sharply on whether undocumented immigrants are a net fiscal drain. Some advocacy and congressional reports put annual costs in the hundreds of billions and indivi...

Jan 26, 2026

What role did parole programs and Title 42 policy changes play in undocumented population changes under Biden?

and shifts in enforcement were central levers in effort to reshape who entered and how, with parole creating limited legal channels for certain nationalities while an expanded or retained Title 42 ser...

Jan 20, 2026

Is Joe Biden a child molester?

There is no credible evidence that Joe Biden is a child molester: reporting and fact‑checks show no formal accusations, complaints, arrests or investigations alleging sex crimes involving minors again...

Nov 18, 2025

How does New York City's crime rate compare to the national average in 2025?

New York City’s official reports show notable declines in many major crime categories through 2025 — the NYPD reported historic lows in shootings and murders for early 2025 and multi-month declines wi...

Oct 28, 2025

Do illegal immigrants pay taxes, and if so, how much do they contribute to the US economy?

Undocumented immigrants do pay taxes in multiple ways and recent estimates place their combined federal, state, and local tax contributions near $100 billion for 2022, though alternate methodologies y...

Jan 27, 2026

Do democrats have a higher level of education

—by multiple reputable measures as a group today are more likely than to include college graduates, but the relationship is complex: the Democratic coalition is more college-educated on average (espec...

Oct 29, 2025

How much does the US spend on social services for illegal immigrants annually?

The best empirical measure for "social services" directed specifically at undocumented immigrants in the United States is , and multiple recent state-level expenditure analyses place that share at abo...

Jan 23, 2026

How much did the federal budget deficit increase each year during Donald Trump's first term (2017-2020)?

Across ’s first term, reporting shows federal budget , with a sharp jump in 2020 tied to the pandemic response; available sources document deficits reaching roughly $1 trillion by 2019 and then expand...

Jan 15, 2026

Can the Supreme Court's ruling be appealed or revisited, and what are the next legal steps?

A Supreme Court decision, once issued, cannot be “appealed” to a higher judicial body because the Court is the nation’s highest tribunal, but it can be revisited through narrow legal and political pat...

Oct 30, 2025

HOW MANY ILLEGALS GET DOVERNMENT BENEFITS

Federal rules and recent analyses show , with specific estimates placing non-citizen SNAP recipients at about 1.764 million people and emergency Medicaid for undocumented immigrants at under 1% of sta...