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Business News > Mint Authors > Clare Ansberry

Clare Ansberry

ARTICLES BY CLARE ANSBERRY

Many middle-aged students pay five-figure tuition costs while their peers enjoy their peak earning years.

Why workers in their 40s are going back to school

4 min read . 13 Dec 2025

Doctors Are Just as Frustrated as You by Our Messed Up Healthcare System

Doctors are just as frustrated as you by our messed up healthcare system

4 min read . 23 Mar 2025

(Illustration: Vartika Sharma)

They cared for each other into their 80s. Then he shot her and killed himself.

7 min read . 20 Jan 2025

For wealthier Americans, greater options exist for how to spend their later years. (Image: Pexel)

Wealthier Americans are paying millions to age in luxury campuses

5 min read . 27 Oct 2024

Almost nine out of 10 Americans 65 and older lived in their own home in 2021, according to Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies. (Getty Images)

The keys to aging at home? Frank conversations and financial planning

4 min read . 25 Sept 2024

The house in which Thomas Matthew Crooks lived in Bethel Park, Pa., on Monday. Photo: Ross Mantle for WSJ

Mystery around Trump shooter deepens

4 min read . 16 Jul 2024

Former President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt while speaking at a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. According to reports, the FBI has identified the gunman, killed at the scene, as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks. (Photo: Getty Images via AFP)

Portrait of Trump’s shooter: Quiet, withdrawn, with little political footprint

4 min read . 15 Jul 2024

Donald Trump was surrounded and rushed off stage during the rally on Saturday. (Getty Images)

A nation on edge fears an election careening toward an ugly finish

5 min read . 14 Jul 2024

Jonny Beardmore with the Galápagos box, where people leave postcards and hope others will deliver them. (Jonny Beardmore)

This man traveled 32,000 miles to deliver 20 postcards. He’s not done yet.

4 min read . 30 Jun 2024

(Illustration Elena Scotti/WSJ, iStock, Pixelsquid)

America has never had so many 65-year-olds. They’re redefining the milestone.

5 min read . 07 Feb 2024

Dr. Gladys McGarey, 103, continues to consult, give talks and podcast interviews after nearly eight decades in the medical field. This year, McGarey, who grew up in India, published her memoir and started an Instagram account, which has nearly 47,000 followers

How to Work—and Love It—Into Your 80s and Beyond

4 min read . 31 Dec 2023

Baked beans have a lot going for them. They’re plant-based, high in protein, convenient, relatively cheap and have a long shelf life.

Long Misunderstood, Baked Beans Are Busting Loose

4 min read . 26 Oct 2023

An ageing population dampens GDP in several ways: older people usually don’t work, they pay less taxes and consume fewer items, all the while drawing down on pensions and social benefit schemes. (Image: Pixabay)

More Men Are Taking Care of Their Aging Parents. The Learning Curve Is Steep.

4 min read . 24 Oct 2023

Three generations of the Hickmans, from left, Dennis, 63, Larry, 86, Jessica, 37 and Jake, 39, run the family lumber and flooring business in the woodlands of western Pennsylvania.

How to Handle Generational Differences at Work? One Family Offers a Blueprint

5 min read . 17 Oct 2023

One recent study concluded that by 2033, more than 11 million middle-income seniors age 75 and older might not be able to pay for assisted living and are also unlikely to qualify for Medicaid (Photo: AFP)

Another inflation stress: Rising costs of senior-living homes strain families

5 min read . 22 Sept 2022

Some families, who have the resources, are using their own money to hire children, nieces, nephews and grandchildren. Rather than trying to find a direct care worker, who may or may not be available or reliable, families will instead hire a family member.

Caring for family doesn’t have to be unpaid work

6 min read . 05 Sept 2022

The pandemic brought many families together and created lingering divisions in others. (REUTERS)

Families try making up after pandemic fights over vaccines, masks and tests

5 min read . 26 Feb 2022

Doctors are now urging people to ditch cloth face masks, which they say may not provide enough protection against the virus. They recommend pairing cloth masks with surgical models or moving on to stronger respirator masks (Photo: AFP)

Why cloth masks might not be enough as Omicron spreads

3 min read . 03 Jan 2022

Photo: Bloomberg

Elder abuse spreads, stoked by the pandemic

10 min read . 28 Dec 2021

The pandemic has left many people at or near retirement age out of work and unexpectedly living on a shoestring budget (Photo: AP)

How baby boomers are coping with Covid-19’s financial hit

8 min read . 26 Aug 2020