Institutions
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Americans are less positive toward the grocery and restaurant industries, and more positive toward the sports industry, than they were a year ago.
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Americans' confidence in the police has increased eight points since last year, but average confidence across 14 U.S. institutions remains historically low.
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Lumina and ͯÑÕÊÓƵ find Americans are more confident in community colleges than four-year universities. The greatest difference between the two is cost.
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Americans now split into roughly equal thirds as to whether they have a lot of (36%), some (32%) or very little (32%) confidence in higher education.
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Americans' lessened confidence in society's institutions and norms may affect society's ability to deal with crucial external and internal threats.
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Americans' opinions of the retail and pharmaceutical industries have suffered the most over the past year, with Democrats increasingly negative about retail and Republicans about the pharmaceutical industry.
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Forty percent of Americans approve of the job the U.S. Supreme Court is doing, unchanged from the record low measured last fall.
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Americans express the lowest level of confidence in their military in decades. Republicans are still the most likely to be confident in the military.
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After slipping in 2021, Republicans' confidence in big business remains at that lower level in 2023, according to ͯÑÕÊÓƵ's annual Confidence in Institutions measure.
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ͯÑÕÊÓƵ finds public faith in many societal institutions holding steady at or near their record lows. Majorities view small business and the military positively.
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Americans' average positive rating of 25 business and industry sectors has fallen to its lowest point since 2008 during the Great Recession.
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U.S. confidence in public schools has sunk back to where it was pre-pandemic, but Democrats' confidence is up while Republicans' is down.
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Americans' confidence in most major U.S. institutions has fallen in the past year, and confidence collectively is at a new low in ͯÑÕÊÓƵ's trend.
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Confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court is down 11 percentage points this year, falling to a new low of 25%.
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Data suggest that increasing trust in the federal government could have a positive impact on COVID-19 outcomes.