http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A36238-2002May30.html Trust in Government Declines Post-9/11 Jump in Americans' Confidence in Washington Is Fading By Claudia Deane Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, May 31, 2002; Page A29 The post-Sept. 11 romance between the public and the federal government is fading fast, according to a survey released yesterday by the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Service. While polls conducted in the weeks after Sept. 11 found that long-languishing trust in government had increased dramatically, a survey conducted this month suggests that confidence in government is headed back down. Forty percent of Americans say they trust the federal government to do what's right at least most of the time. That's down 17 percentage points from a survey conducted for the center in October, but it is higher than the 29 percent recorded in July. Government favorableness ratings followed the same pattern. The percentage of people viewing the government favorably rose from 50 percent last summer to 78 percent in the fall, only to drop 18 percentage points since then. [...] http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0502/053002b1.htm Public support for federal workers falls to pre-Sept. 11 level By Brian Friel Americans support federal workers and trust the government less today than they did immediately after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, a new survey shows. The survey, issued Thursday by the Brookings Institution's Center for Public Service, found that support for federal workers had fallen to its pre-Sept. 11 level. The percentage of Americans who said they had a favorable opinion of federal workers fell from 76 percent in October 2001 to 69 percent this month, the same percentage that reported a favorable opinion in July 2001. The percentage of Americans who said they trust the federal government to do what is right just about always or most of the time fell from 57 percent in October 2001 to 40 percent this month. In July 2001, 29 percent of survey respondents said they had high levels of trust in the government. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Fri May 31 2002 - 10:37:04 PDT