Americans’ trust in government has beendecliningfor six decades. Scholarshave arguedthat party affiliation determines trust in government. When one’s preferred party controls government, that trust is high; when the opposing party has power, it’s low. While partisanship ...
Interestingly, trust in the media is particularly low among conservative Republicans, especially those who listen to political talk radio. For these Americans, perhaps the problem with the media rests on what they see as a liberal bias, not declining journalistic standards.Jones...
The phenomenon, known as "truth decay", is defined by increasing disagreement about facts, a blurring between opinion and fact, an increase in the relative volume of opinion and personal experience over fact, and declining trust in formerly respected sources of factual information, the report says...
Americans are supportive of continued government efforts to fight against the coronavirus, however a significant minority says it is time to move on with 44% of respondents saying America has already spent enough fighting COVID and that it's time to stop and move on. Washington, DC, September ...
Trust in public health institutions and public figures is highly partisan. 3. While Americans are skeptical of the government in public health, most believe government health programs or agencies should be strengthened. Few Americans (33%) believe the government makes the health or well-being of ...
The Spanish presence in the United States continued to diminish, declining sharply between 1930 and 1940 from a total of 110,000 to 85,000. Many immigrants moved either back to Spain or to another Hispanic country. Historically, Spaniards have often lived abroad, usually in order to make enoug...
More businesses are declining to accept cash. That shut out millions of people who don’t have bank accounts, credit or debit cards from participating in our increasingly cashless economy.
This alliance between the federal government and African Americans was tentative, but it foreshadowed some of the dynamics of racial change in the 1950s and 1960s. The Civil Rights Movement The civil rights movement was a multifaceted campaign to end legalized segrega- tion and ameliorate the ...
For his new rulership, cognitively declining Joe Biden dug up about any futile scheme and failed official from the disabling years when he served as conniving Barack Obama’s vice president, empowering them to carry their dysfunction on into governing in the ...
s intervention exacerbated declining trust in the vaccination system among Somali families. In 2004, MMR vaccine uptake among children of Somali descent in Minneapolis was 92 per cent. Ten years later, it had fallen to 42 per cent. And in 2017, an outbreak of measles ripped through the ...