Leon: Only about one in four US adults can name all three government branches
Beverly Leon · How I Built Resilience: Beverly Leon of Local Civics · Feb 18, 2021 · at 12:14
Beverly Leon, founder of Local Civics, highlights deficiencies in public civic knowledge regarding the US federal government.
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“Civic knowledge is at an all time low. It's around one in four adults can name all three branches of the federal government.”
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