U.S. small businesses have the confidence of the American people more than any other institution except the military, according to a new Gallup poll.
Click on the photo above to see how Americans rate 16 basic U.S. institutions.
“Americans’ confidence in many of the nation’s key institutions remains shaky, including record-low confidence in public schools, banks, television news and organized religion this year,” Gallup says. “The declining confidence seems to be part of a broader pattern, rather than a product of isolated issues facing individual institutions. Once Americans begin to feel better about the way things are going in the United States, some of their lost confidence in the country’s major institutions will likely be restored.”
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