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From the Foster Letter (see www.garydfoster.com)The 2008 Harris Poll of American leadership confidence has measured the confidence finds 15 of the 16 items listed show a fall in confidence from ’07. They are leadership in medicine down from 35% to 28%, the White House down 22% to 15% and small business leaders from 54% to 47%,. Wall Street, major educational institutions, the courts and the justice systems also saw significant declines.
The 6 institutions enjoying the highest confidence of Americans are:
The military (51%);
Small business (47%);
Major educational institutions (32%);
Medicine (28%);
Organized religion (25%):
The Supreme Court (25%).
The lowest levels of confidence are in:
The Congress (8%);
The press (10%);
Organized labor (11%);
Wall Street (11%);
Major companies (14%).
(Pastors Weekly Briefing 3/7/08, cited in the Foster Letter).
