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Your Life, Your Money

Name: Your Life, Your Money
Director: Tom Simon
Released: 2009
Duration: 55 min

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Representation Score

2.1/10

Limited

2009

TV-G

Director

Tom Simon

Runtime

55 minutes

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New Showbiz Analysis

This PBS documentary focuses on financial literacy, emphasizing practical civic instruction and personal responsibility. It achieves some diversity through its expert panel, which includes female professionals and racial diversity via Michelle Singletary. However, the film does not delve deeply into other areas of representation. The production operates within traditional socio-economic frameworks, aiming to empower young adults within existing systems without challenging social hierarchies or exploring diverse identities.

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Category Breakdown

Does Your Life, Your Money have LGBTQ+ representation?

Minimal

The program focuses strictly on economic literacy. There are no LGBTQ+ characters, themes, or critiques of heteronormativity present.

How does Your Life, Your Money portray gender?

Fair

The film features female experts like Beth Kobliner and Michelle Singletary, providing authoritative guidance on financial matters. It does not challenge traditional gender roles through social critique.

How racially and ethnically diverse is Your Life, Your Money?

Fair

Michelle Singletary adds racial diversity to the expert panel. However, the racial backgrounds of the young adults featured in the cautionary tales remain unspecified.

How does Your Life, Your Money represent religion and culture?

Limited

The film promotes traditional Western financial institutions and practices, such as banking and budgeting, framing them as tools for personal empowerment rather than subjects of critique.

Does Your Life, Your Money include disability representation?

Minimal

There is no mention of characters or experts with visible or invisible disabilities.

Present on Screen

Features female experts providing authoritative financial guidance.
Includes racial diversity through the presence of Michelle Singletary.

Limited or Absent

Lacks representation of LGBTQ+ themes or characters.
Does not address disability representation.
Maintains a traditional Western institutional perspective without social critique.

Official Synopsis

This engaging, highly practical program uses cautionary tales from financially challenged young adults to help viewers take charge of their personal finances and get on the road to long-term financial stability. Hosted by actor Donald Faison ("Scrubs"), this PBS special features sound advice from noted business writers Beth Kobliner and Michelle Singletary, who explain the ins and outs of banking, budgeting, investing and much more.

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