Aspen Ideas Festival: The Crisis In Trust

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🗓️ 3 September 2024

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In a time of widespread suspicion and cynicism, everyone has a role to play in strengthening social trust and building bridges.

How can we create optimism about the present and the future?

That big question was central to a conversation at the Aspen Ideas Festival in June.

We discuss how individuals and organizations can work together to repair the fundamental bonds of a healthy society.

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0:00.0	It's a question we likely ask ourselves every day.
0:07.0	It's a question we likely ask ourselves every day.
0:11.0	Who do we trust? The answer has been moving in one direction for decades.
0:16.8	Back in 2006, when the pollsters Gallup first started asking Americans about their trust
0:21.9	and key institutions, we ranked at the top of the
0:24.8	world's most powerful economies tied with the UK.
0:28.9	Last year, and for the first time, the US ranked last. Now new data from Gallup shows our trust in national
0:36.6	institutions is in free fall. So today we're focusing on how individuals and
0:41.2	organizations can work together to repair those broken bonds.
0:45.4	I'm Jen White.
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