Republicans are critical of how several major institutions, from large corporations and technology companies to universities and K-12 public schools, are affecting the United States. And in many cases, Republicans’ assessments have taken a sharp negative turn in the past few years. Democrats, by contrast, are more positive than Republicans […] Read more »
The rise and fall of American confidence in its institutions
A conversation with Mohamed Younis, Gallup editor-in-chief. Here & There with Dave Marash The OPINION TODAY email newsletter is a concise daily rundown of significant new poll results and insightful analysis. It’s FREE. Sign up here: opiniontoday.substack Read more »
Americans’ Confidence in Major U.S. Institutions Dips
Americans’ average confidence in major U.S. institutions has edged down after increasing modestly several months into the coronavirus pandemic last year. Currently, an average 33% of U.S. adults express “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in 14 institutions, marking a three-percentage-point dip since 2020 and a return […] Read more »
The Public’s Perspective on the United States Public Health System
When it comes to public trust in the recommendations made by different groups to improve health, in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, the public currently trusts nurses, healthcare workers, and doctors more than the nation’s public health institutions and agencies. … Notably, less than half the public has high […] Read more »
Can Reality Live Up To Expectations?
All indicators right now point to “go.” Americans have never been more optimistic about their financial futures, and many are busy planning social, active summers. But the recent April jobs report suggests that we shouldn’t get too far ahead of ourselves. Jobs growth was much slower than projected, and unemployment […] Read more »
It’s All About Confidence
There is little doubt that this country is both narrowly and badly divided. To the extent that there is any debate about the severity, it is whether today is worse than 1968, when both the civil rights struggle and an increasingly unpopular war in Vietnam divided the country. A lack […] Read more »