Public Confidence in American Red Cross Drops After Katrina

Public confidence in the American Red Cross has fallen in the weeks since Hurricane Katrina made landfall along the Gulf Coast, a new opinion poll has found.

The survey — commissioned by New York University's Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service — found that only 38 percent of Americans had "a great deal of confidence" in the charity as of mid-October. That percentage is down from the 43 percent who reported a high level of confidence in

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