Institutions and Infrastructure
Explore Gallup's research.
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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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After slipping in 2021, Republicans' confidence in big business remains at that lower level in 2023, according to Gallup's annual Confidence in Institutions measure.
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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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Four industries in Gallup's annual rating of 25 business sectors are at new lows of popularity with Americans this year, and all four are in the information business.
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Of 25 key U.S. business sectors, Americans' views of nine have worsened significantly, largely because of Republicans' decreased positivity.
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An initial review of polling data shows that a majority of Americans appear to support the $3.5 trillion Senate budget plan and its constituent elements.
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Americans support congressional infrastructure legislation regardless of how it is defined or what is included.
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The extreme cold and massive power outages in Texas may lead to shifts in U.S. public opinion on several key issues.
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Both the American public and President-elect Joe Biden favor government action on the nation's pressing infrastructure problems.
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A small majority of Americans say they are "very" (19%) or "somewhat confident" (40%) that votes in the upcoming presidential election will be accurately cast and counted throughout the country, matching a low Gallup recorded in 2008.
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While 56% of White adults in the U.S. say they are confident in the police, far fewer Black adults (19%) say the same. The police elicit the largest racial gap in confidence among 16 institutions tested.
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Americans agree that their government should take immediate action in a number of specific problem areas.
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