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Today we answer listener questions about age discrimination; how work hours are counted; and whether the economy is running out of people to take jobs.

Chicago's Joe Vitacco is a freelance embalmer. He works out of his trunk, driving from funeral home to funeral home, plying his trade. He's lasted longer than most in the business, and over a 40-year career, he's worked on 40,000 bodies. Vitacco tells his story to Matt Ozug.

One in five workers is a contract worker, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. Within a decade, contractors and freelancers could make up half of the workforce, a shift with far-reaching implications.

The pandemic has put some workplace trends into overdrive. Some employers are converting full-time jobs into freelance positions. In some white-collar occupations, freelancing may become the norm.

Freelance journalist and music critic FRED GOODMAN. He is also a former Rolling Stones and Billboard editor and current contributing editor to Microsoft Network's (MSN) Music Central. In a new book, "The Mansion on The Hill" (Times Books), Goodman chronicles how the record industry has changed rock 'n roll from the music of the counterculture to a billion dollar commercial enterprise. Goodman's past publications have appeared in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, New York, and Spy. 12:28:30 FORWARD PROMO (:29)12:29:00 I.D. BREAK (:59)12:

For a growing population of independent workers, the flexibility of contract work comes with the headache of dealing with taxes and other issues that employers would normally handle.

When the world was first introduced to the Web comic Sluggy Freelance in 1997, a character named Riff had summoned the devil online. Since then, Sluggy and his peculiar friends have had many adventures. Creator and illustrator Pete Abrams celebrates a decade of his Internet comic this weekend.

Casey Coombs was one of a number of Americans being held in Yemen, according to the U.S. State Department.

Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid has been behind bars for 705 days without charge. He was arrested in 2013 while taking photos at a protest in Cairo.

Throughout Yemen's uprising, few Western journalists were able to get into the country2011. Those who did had to remain under the radar. In their absence, a young team of freelancers became the world's witnesses to mass protests and brutal crackdowns.