Big banks blamed for the deepest economic dip since the Great Depression? Public schools scathingly dubbed a failure to the nation’s children? Journalists gloomily surveying this week’s
ham-handed bobbling of a delicate story about politics, race, and the state of the media?
You can all breathe a small sigh of relief. People still like you better than Congress.
Public confidence in the group dubbed “the world’s greatest deliberative body” has hit an all-time low in this year’s
Gallup Confidence in Institutions poll, with only
11 percent of Americans saying that they have "a great deal" or “quite a lot” of confidence in Congress.