Robert Brokamp

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I'm Robert Brokamp.

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how to make sure you can manage your parents' or other relatives' finances if necessary, and how someone could do the same for you.

That and more on this Saturday personal finance edition of Motley Fool Money.

I'm Robert Brokamp, and this week I speak with certified financial planner and author Beth Pinsker about the challenges of being a financial caregiver and how being prepared beforehand makes a world of difference.

But first, let's look at some money-related headlines, starting with some somber news from the employment front.

On November 20th, the Department of Labor released the delayed employment report for September, showing that the unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, the highest level since 2021.

According to Bloomberg's Matthew Boesler, the jobs report showed that except for health care and leisure, U.S.

private sector employment has declined in each of the last five months, something that's never happened in the past 35 years outside of a recession.

Then this week, payroll processing firm ADP announced that private companies laid off 32,000 workers in November, the hardest hit being small businesses with 50 or fewer employees.

Year-over-year pay increases for those who remained on the jobs also slightly declined to 4.4% from 4.5% in October.

And then on Thursday, consulting firm Challenger Gray and Christmas reported that employers announced plans to lay off more than 70,000 employees in November.