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Siblings about money, about living wills, about clinical trials and watching your mother and father, who is closest, who wants to quarterback the medical care, the better you are off as a family. >> shep: the shriver report is a step in direction. can you tell us what we can learn? >> the shriver report focused on women and alzheimer's. they are primary caretakers and they are diagnosed at a higher rate than men. we have millions of women that are primary bread winners in american families. they are caring for loved ones with alzheimer's. women are under siege in this society we are in in busi...

Sugar momma. and more women are bread winners of the family. that's next. or creates another laptop bag, or hires another employee, it's not just good for business. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities. that's why we extended $13.2 billion to small businesses across the country so far this year. because the more we help them, the more whelp make opportunitpossible.

almost 3% of market's valleys. the standard & poor's index down more. nearly 4%. alison kosik live with the latest. what's driving this? >> reporter: we saw the sell-off pick up steam on wall street after a report a eurozone official said they have no plans to givotly a financial rescue package, financial assistance may not be in the cards for italy. the thinking, it will could be too big to bail out. the fact it's solvent but drowns in $2.5 trillion in debt. its economy more than twice as big as greece, portugal and ireland when you put them altogether. a bail xwout could cost clear...

Those are jobs like state and local governments and so on. >> isn't this the pink collar work force? >> exactly. the pink collar work force. so in the past, while we saw men bearing the brunt of the job losses, women are finding themselves in that position now, as men are gaining jobs. so while a couple of years ago we were seeing this upward trend in the number of families that were relying on women, as bread winners, that may be reversing soon. >> kathryn, has there been any data that shows that you added the fiscal responsibility taken up by women has led to better wages or better work envi...

The streets they were bread winners. i think even under an oppressive regime like the taliban was, these girls managed to find a way to navigate around the rules and provide for people counting on them. i think it's a universal story relevant to what is going on in the middle east today. >> hillary clinton has made this a prime issue and created a huge office really to address women's problems. we've got women, representatives from the state department traveling around the world. yet it could all be rolled back. we're seeing increasing pressure for american withdrawal and accelerated withdrawa...