Politicians, lawyers, telemarketers, and journalists sit at the low end of a new survey asking which profession has the highest ethics and honesty.
Nurses are on top of the latest Gallup survey, with 84 percent viewing their profession as one with “very high” ethics.
Last sit members of Congress. Just 8 percent view them as highly ethical and 58 percent view as having “very low” ethics, the biggest percentage in the annual poll taken since 1976.
Below average are journalists – even lower than scandal-plagued Catholic priests. Some 33 percent of those polled said reporters are honest and have high ethics and 34 percent said the industry’s ethics and honesty are low. – READ MORE