The UPLIFT Institute on National and International Policy Research focuses its  attention on those local, national and global issues that have a personal and direct effect on the everyday lives of Americans.   Our mission is to educate people about the new world that has formed around them, how that world operates, how it works for them and/or against them and most importantly, how individuals can affect these forces, if they choose to do so. Our mission, also is to have knowledge of the events, policies and personalities that are affecting us.