Five years after the start of the Great Recession, the toll is terrifyingly clear: Millions of middle-class jobs have been lost in developed countries the world over. And the situation is even worse than it appears.

WellPoint Inc.'s fourth-quarter earnings jumped 38 percent compared to the final quarter of 2011, when the nation's second largest health insurer incurred a big hit from its Medicare Advantage business.

With signs of economic improvements coming, information technology jobs are opening beyond the traditional markets.

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, most Americans say the landmark Supreme Court case establishing abortion rights should stand.