Stephen Eide
Manhattan Institute
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The Continuum of Care: A Vision for Mental Health Reform
Mental health care in America is in need of reform. Continuum of care can provide a solution to those struggling with serious psychiatric disorders. → Read More
Mental-Health Reform Is a Bipartisan Issue
Policy can reduce the risk of another mass shooting like Uvalde. Nothing can eliminate it entirely. → Read More
Crime and Mental Illness in New York City
In a new report for the Manhattan Institute, Stephen Eide evaluates the interaction of serious mental illness with the criminal justice system in New York City. → Read More
Homelessness Is Behind the Anger at Gavin Newsom
Tent cities, street chaos and public disorder have spread to every corner of California under his watch. → Read More
‘DSM Review: The Meanings of Madness
The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, features nearly 300 diagnoses. What’s the science behind it? → Read More
Camden, NJ Did Police Reform Right — Not That Radicals Will Pay Attention
The recent unrest over the death of George Floyd is turning into a debate over how to change policing in America. The radical hotheads are more interested in blowing up policing as we know it than reforming the system in ways that concretely benefit poor communities of color. But those looking... → Read More
Responses to Homelessness: The Law-Enforcement Dimension
Editor's note: The following is the third article in the Urban Policy 2019 published by the Manhattan Institute. Homelessness-related public disorder is one of the leading policy challenges in major U.S. cities. Widespread concern about homelessness has been registered in surveys of the... → Read More
How to Fix New York’s Mental Health Crisis Without Spending More Money
In its response to Mayor de Blasio’s budget, the City Council proposed a 20 percent cut to ThriveNYC, his marquee mental-health initiative poised to spend almost $1 billion over four years. This move came after blazing criticism from the press and other city officials that Thrive has failed... → Read More
How New York Is Going Backward in Handling Serious Mental Illness
New Yorkers are fed up with erratic, sometimes violent behavior from the growing ranks of homeless mentally ill on the streets and subways. → Read More
New York Desperately Needs More Mental-Health Beds — Not Less
Homeless, bewildered, miserable, addicted and sometimes violent: The ranks of the mentally ill are swelling, and many New Yorkers come face to face with the crisis on a daily basis. Behind it lie policy failures half a century in the making. Prior to the 1950s, our public mental-health system... → Read More
Systems Under Strain: Deinstitutionalization in New York State and City
In 2017, the most recent year for which survey data are available, 139,403 seriously mentally ill adults statewide and 72,363 in the New York City region were served by public mental health programs.[2] These numbers represent small fractions of the total seriously mentally ill adults in the... → Read More
What’s the Matter With Connecticut?
The state’s affluent suburbanites punish themselves in an effort to punish Donald Trump. → Read More
Connecticut City Pensions: The Affordability Gap
Connecticut state government’s pension struggles are well understood: deep levels of underfunding have led to credit-rating downgrades, tax increases, recurring budget deficits, and an inability to fund essential services. → Read More
In Connecticut, Even the Politicians Are Publicly Funded
Nine Republicans are running for governor. Why not, since campaigns can get tax money? → Read More
The Supreme Court May Rescue Blue-State Finances
A ruling against the unions in Janus could break their exorbitant grip on Illinois, California and New York. → Read More
Hello, New York? Connecticut's A Better Deal
Many in Connecticut are concerned about congressional Republicans' plans to reduce the deductibility of state and local taxes. Their concerns are justified. Any major cut to the "SALT" deduction would force Connecticut taxpayers to feel the full brunt of the cost of state and local government.... → Read More
To Revitalize Rust Belt Cities, First Stabilize Their Budgets
We seem to be in the process of rediscovering the Rust Belt, as a result of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 presidential election. Anyone who has recently visited Detroit, Youngstown or Erie can understand what Trump meant when he spoke in his inaugural address of “American... → Read More
Rust Belt Cities and Their Burden of Legacy Costs
Rust Belt cities have long been trying to respond to social and economic decline. Some officials continue to pursue a revival of manufacturing. Academics and, to a lesser extent, policymakers have tried to develop “shrinking city” agendas that start by recognizing that postindustrial cities are not likely to return soon to postwar economic health. → Read More
Does New Jersey’s Next Governor Want to Live in Connecticut?
The Garden State should learn from Hartford’s bad example: You can’t tax your way to prosperity. → Read More
Does New Jersey’s Next Governor Want to Live in Connecticut?
The Garden State should learn from Hartford’s bad example: You can’t tax your way to prosperity. → Read More