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PBS has been producing thoughtful programming for diverse audiences since 1970, and since 2012, PBS Digital Studios has been an innovator in digital-first educational programming, constantly exploring new directions to educate audiences about history, science, culture, and the world around them. PBS Digital Studios includes a network of YouTube channels with millions of subscribers and billions of lifetime views.

Man furrows his brow while speaking to us in front of a purple crosshatch-patterned digital background.
Two Cents
Season 2 / Ep 27
6 minutes 13 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Infographic shows a cartoon man on vacation looking over at a set of numbers under the header "Compound interest calculator." The infographic identifies an annual addition of $4,420, a 7% interest rate, and a resulting $25,891 after ten years.
Two Cents
Season 2 / Ep 18
7 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Victor R Fuchs sits next to a quote of his that says, "... 'choke points' for diverse interest groups to block or modify the government's role."
Two Cents
Season 4 / Ep 11
7 minutes 48 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Illustration shows a biblical-looking man with a white beard wearing a red tunic. Next to this is a tall building with a punny name and a flower illustration on the sign, "too scents," with scents spelled S C E N T S.
Two Cents
Season 4 / Ep 15
8 minutes 21 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing a black blouse talks to us. Next to her, an illustration of a gold crown on which is written "Royalties."
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 25
7 minutes 16 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing a mustard-yellow blouse speaks to us emphatically, standing before a spooky green-glowing background that resembles a cave, and next to a framed illustrated portrait of a winged goblin wearing human clothes. The portrait is labeled, "Non-profit debt counselor."
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 13
7 minutes 42 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Infographic shows a cartoon woman wearing a formal top, skirt, and heels with her hands on her hips, next to a bar graph that shows a green bar labeled "10% payouts above the horizontal line and a red bar below the line.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 8
5 minutes 29 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing an ornate necklace with her hair in braids blinks as she speaks to us from an interior space.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 17
6 minutes 32 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman gestures with her hands while speaking to us, standing before a digital background with an illustration of a man wearing gray pants, a red shirt, and sneakers.
Two Cents
Season 4 / Ep 14
9 minutes 8 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man speaks to us while gesturing with his hands, standing before a blue crosshatch-patterned digital background.
Two Cents
Season 2 / Ep 21
6 minutes 7 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man speaks to us while gesturing with his hands, standing before a blue lace-like patterned digital background.
Two Cents
Season 1 / Ep 31
5 minutes 59 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Cartoon shows a ponytailed woman posing in front of an unlabeled pie chart divided into a large green section, a smaller yellow section, and an even smaller orange section.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 5
6 minutes 12 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing a floral-printed and striped shirt speaks to us as a screenshot of a March 14, 2020, New York Times article comes into view. The photo shows a man standing in front of tall shelves stocked with boxes, hand sanitizer, cleaning wipes and other products. The headline and sub headline read, "He Has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them. Amazon cracked down on coronavirus price gouging. Now, while the rest of the world searches, some sellers are holding stockpiles of sanitizer and masks."
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 20
7 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Man with a mustache speaks to us. Next to him is an illustration of a man sitting at a desk with four screens showing different graphs.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 22
9 minutes 10 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman wearing a colorful button-down top speaks to us from a home office interior.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 24
7 minutes 4 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Infographic shows a woman holding her hands up, explaining a diagram next to her. At the top of the infographic is a circle that contains the label “$500 a month.” This circle points to two categories: a circle containing the label “Insurance” and a piggy bank labeled “Cash Value.” Below the piggy bank is another arrow that points to a circle labeled “4-6%.”
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 4
6 minutes 45 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Worried woman sits at a desk with a laptop in an office. She gives a wary look toward a smart speaker with three speaking bubbles floating above it. The first reads, “Order completed.” The second reads, “Tracking completed.” The third reads, “Invoicing completed.”
Two Cents
Season 4 / Ep 13
7 minutes 3 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman holds her hands up, explaining the clip art next to her, a yellow house with a sign in the front yard that reads, “For Sale.”
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 3
5 minutes 38 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Split screen shows a woman on the left speaking to us. On the right is a vertical bar chart labeled “last 30 years.” A short gold bar labeled “Gold” is marked at 280%. A taller gray bar labeled “DOW” stands beside it, marked at “839%.”
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 23
7 minutes 2 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12
Woman standing in front of a purple background raises her eyebrows as if she is about to tell us something.
Two Cents
Season 3 / Ep 12
6 minutes 15 seconds
Grade Level: 7 - 12