Data continues to pour in from a variety of sources indicating that faith in government is at a record low. Pew Research Center’s latest survey found that only 22 percent of those polled trust the federal government “almost always or most of the time.” In the Harris Poll’s long-running measure of public attitudes, only 8 percent have confidence in Congress. The problem is not limited to Washington, however, as the Gallup Poll’s annual measure of public confidence in state government has also taken a nose dive in recent years, dropping below 50 percent in every region except the South.
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