Gallup's Front Page | Sept 16, 2026
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1. Americans Say Government Corruption Widespread
The Data: A record-high 89% of Americans say corruption is widespread throughout the U.S. government, up 10 percentage points from 2025.
OECD Context: For most of the past two decades, the U.S. has outpaced OECD countries in views of government corruption. The OECD median has remained below 60% since 2022.
2. Nearly Half of Americans Want Unions to Gain Influence
The Data: Forty-seven percent of Americans would like labor unions in the U.S. to have more influence than they do today, a record high and roughly twice the 23% who want them to have less influence. Another 26% want unions’ influence to remain the same.
The Trend: The share wanting unions to have more influence has risen from a record low of 25% in 2009, with a four-point increase since 2023. The share who want them to have less influence has fallen from 42% in 2009 to a record low of 23%.
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Thank God for the Trump Administration or the massive fraud would have ruined our country. Although starting with the assassination of JFK, Globalist took over the government with the Obama Administration and set in motion unprecedented fraudulent activity in our government. Turned our citizens against each other with fake news media, phony racial accusations, years of infiltration in our educational system, Hilary Clinton constant lies about Benghazi, targeting Donald Trump as a threat to divide people and insert the Biden Administration into power by ultimately manufacturing the COVID crisis to test their ability to control the population and enhance their powerful grip on the destruction of America and opening the borders to openly defy our laws and Constitution. Could go on for hours but preceding summarizes somewhat of why such distrust exists.
Without knowing what queries were made the data results are suspect. All data can be manipulated to represent any point of view ... which are opinions
I think these two statistics are sharply related - We believe that corruption is rampant and we want balancing institutions to distribute power more equally. I'm sure some hope that that balance will reduce the ability of politicians to be corrupt. Yet we all know that unions can be corrupted as well. I think what's important to recognize is that we need dissent and that opposition has benefits. I think in the months and years to come we will have to find ways to weave dissent into our discourse and look at it as the growth catalyst that it actually is.