The Middle America Project

Facts over fury.Reason in a time of rhetoric.

Promoting moderate voices in a time of extreme rhetoric. We inform and educate public debate around the issues that matter to everyday Americans.

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A calm, credible voice in a room full of screaming.

About Us

Middle America Project (MAP) aims to inform and educate public debate around issues that are important to everyday Americans.

Who We Are

MAP is comprised of a mix of think tanks, trade associations, and the private sector aligned in shared policy goals for you.

What We Do

MAP aims to help turn the policy conversation back to one filled with facts and information.

Issues We Care About

The issues that concern Americans, explained with facts.

The Middle America Project is focused on the issues that have inspired some of the most heated rhetoric. We want to encourage dialogue and turn the conversation back to rationality.

Combating Climate Change

Encouraging American Technology

Access to & Affordability of Healthcare

Trade That Helps Everyone

Encouraging American Innovation

Improving American Infrastructure

Fair & Effective Tax Policies

The Changing American Workforce

In Focus

A closer look at the issues, free of the noise.

Rural America

Saving the Family Farm

For generations, family farms have anchored rural communities and put food on America's tables. Today many face mounting pressure — volatile commodity prices, rising input costs, and estate tax rules that can force heirs to sell land just to settle a bill. The result is farmland consolidating into fewer hands while small towns lose their economic backbone.

Protecting family farms shouldn't be a partisan fight. Practical steps — sensible estate tax relief, fairer access to credit and crop insurance, and real support for the next generation of growers — can keep these operations in the family and keep rural America strong.

Economy & Taxes

Sensible, Fair & Effective Tax Policies

A tax code should be simple enough to understand and fair enough to trust. Instead, decades of carve-outs and complexity have left everyday Americans and small businesses spending time and money just to stay compliant, while the system too often rewards those who can afford to game it.

We favor a pragmatic, middle-ground approach: broaden fairness, close the loopholes that distort the market, and keep rates predictable so families and employers can plan ahead. Good tax policy isn't about left or right — it's about a system that works for the people who fund it.

Turn the conversation back to facts.

Join the Middle America Project and help us champion moderate, fact-based dialogue on the issues that matter most.