Distrust is deepening overall, Edelman’s 2018 barometer finds

The U.S. has yet to rebound from its credibility crisis.
That’s the biggest takeaway form the annual report from Edelman covering
public trust in major institutions. The report broke down respondents into
two groups, informed and general population. In neither category did
institutions from business to government show an increase in public trust.
In the “informed public” category, institutions lost ground.
 According to an average measure of the loss of trust from 2017 to