A new survey by Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation finds that members of Gen Z — those between the ages of 12 and 26 — have low levels of trust in public institutions. The lowest ranked were Congress (12 percent), the news (16 percent), the presidency (14 percent), and large technology companies (17 percent).
The military garnered 40 percent, with participants saying they had either “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of trust in the institution. Forty-five percent had high levels of trust in the medical system, 38 percent for the police, and just 23 percent for the criminal-justice system.
By far the greatest degree of trust was in science at 71 percent.
What’s curious is that the “science” that members of Gen Z access is generally framed and presented by many of the same institutions they claim not to trust.