Are We at the End of the Industrial Age?

Even as innovations spurred a surge in productivity, it was five decades before working-class living standards began to rise.

I sold my business to take care of my mother for a decade. Now I'm 72 and have to work to play catch-up.

Susan Freeman, 72, put her career on hold to care for her aging mother. She now works four days a week at her sister's store to pay the bills.