Data Behind Americans' Waning Trust in Institutions

If mistrust were a disease, the United States would be facing an epidemic. Over the last half-century, trust in American institutions has ...

Americans' Mistrust of Institutions | The Pew Charitable Trusts

Trust in our nation's institutions has never been lower. And experts tend to blame our politically polarized society, which certainly ...

Public Trust in Government: 1958-2024 | Pew Research Center

Public trust in government remains low, as it has for much of the 21st century. Roughly two-in-ten Americans say they trust the government ...

Confidence in Institutions | Gallup Historical Trends

The table provides a historical view of Americans' confidence in news on the internet, with data points from the years 1999, 2014 and 2017. ... The percentage of ...

Gallup: Confidence in US institutions continues to decline - VOA News

Trust in churches and organized religion has steadily declined, with a record-breaking 30% of Americans expressing "very little" confidence last ...

U.S. Confidence in Institutions Mostly Flat, but Police Up - Gallup News

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Americans' confidence in the police increased eight percentage points over the past year to 51%, the largest ...

Trust and Distrust in America - Pew Research Center

Trust is an essential elixir for public life and neighborly relations, and when Americans think about trust these days, they worry. Two-thirds ...

American confidence in higher ed hits historic low

When ranked against the other 16 institutions included in a larger Gallup survey, higher ed is still fourth in terms of trusted institutions.

Trust in US institutions has 'never been lower' – here's why that matters

In 2022, a Gallup poll found that Americans had experienced “significant declines” in trust in 11 of 16 major US institutions. The supreme court ...

America's trust in its institutions has collapsed - The Economist

New data from Gallup, a pollster, show that American trust in several national institutions is on the decline.

Americans Have Regained Modest Trust in Scientists, Survey Finds

Nate Cohn, The Times's chief political analyst, makes sense of the latest political data. ... confidence in scientific institutions, he added.

There's a toxic brew of mistrust toward U.S. institutions. It's got real ...

Fewer Americans are saying they have confidence in a host of critical groups and institutions, including scientists and medical experts, but ...

How Americans' confidence in technology firms has dropped

Analysis of our surveys yields one immediate and overarching finding: Americans are losing confidence in institutions of all shapes and sizes.

What's Behind American Distrust in Elections? - IGCC

Sixty-eight percent of Black Americans and 74 percent of Asian Americans trust that the election accurately reflected the vote versus 59 percent ...

America Is Having a Moral Convulsion - The Atlantic

Levels of trust in this country—in our institutions, in our politics, and in one another—are in precipitous decline. And when social trust ...

Americans' faith in institutions has been sliding for years. The chaos ...

Multiple AP-NORC polls from earlier this year find that the dearth of confidence is pervasive, spreading to organized religion, the government's ...

How Americans Lost Trust in Our Greatest Institutions - The Atlantic

And even when they do, they don't always restore Americans' faith in institutions and each other. Schools are worsening (especially relative to ...

What Happens When Americans Don't Trust Institutions?

The survey found that since last June, when Gallup last asked this set of questions, Americans' confidence in almost every institution has ...

In Amazon we trust — but why? - Vox

The goal of the survey was to pull apart the broadly recognized fact that “Americans have lost confidence in many of our institutions,” and ...

Institutions, Experts & the Loss of Trust

Americans' trust in government is lower than ever. However, while all groups have seen a decline in trust since the 1960s, the gap in trust between racial and ...