that's going to be their challenge. >> woodruff: roger cressey, mark landler, thank you both. >> thank you so much. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: now, our economics correspondent paul solman takes a look at what has become the new normal for many members of the aging middle class: financial fragility. it's part of his weekly series, "making sense," which airs thursdays on the newshour. >> everybody is pretending. >> reporter: and that's why you call the book, "faking normal?" >> right. because there's a lot of pressure to seem like you are doing well. >> reporter: elizabeth white is not doing terribly well, as she painfully chronicles in the book she's just self-published:" fifty-five, unemployed, and faking normal." white's been on the edge of the financial cliff for years, though you'd never know it from how she looks or the washington, d.c. townhouse she bought years ago. one she couldn't even dream of renting today. but you haven't been in a situation where you literally couldn't afford whatever it is, the condo fee, or? >> oh, absolutely i have! i'm right now have to park outside