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A new study finds that, on average, women in Alaska’s nonprofit industry earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns. Nonprofits employ 17% of the Alaska workforce.

Polling suggests millennials are more liberal than earlier generations on many social issues except gun laws. Pollsters say they can’t explain this anomaly. Some millennials are surprised by it, too.

It may be that it’s scientific beliefs — not in isolation but in conjunction with political, religious and other beliefs — that shape our decisions and engagement in civic life, says Tania Lombrozo.

A Pew Research Center survey shows that 63 percent of Republicans under the age of 34 favor legalization.