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Article: Confidence in Leaders of Major Institutions Declines Modestly Since Last Year, According to Harris Poll; Significant decline in confidence in the White House and Supreme Court while confidence in leaders of higher education and organized religion recover ground lost a year earlier.
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- March 10, 2004
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ROCHESTER, N.Y., March 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Early every year, The Harris Poll measures the level of public confidence in the leaders of fourteen major institutions. Over the 37 years since we first did this, confidence has gone up and down dramatically, and different institutions have moved up and down the list. This year's survey finds that, overall, public confidence has slipped a bit over the last year, with our "Confidence Index" falling two points from 57 last year to 55 now.
By historic standards, 55 is still quite a high number. In the 1980s and 1990s, there were only two years when it was higher than 55. This year's level of confidence is now what it was ...