Posted on 03/01/2010 10:50:20 PM PST by The Magical Mischief Tour
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) - It's hard enough to find a job in this economy, and now some people are facing another hurdle: Potential employers are holding their credit histories against them.
Sixty percent of employers recently surveyed by the Society for Human Resources Management said they run credit checks on at least some job applicants, compared with 42 percent in a somewhat similar survey in 2006.
Employers say such checks give them valuable information about an applicant's honesty and sense of responsibility. But lawmakers in at least 16 states from South Carolina to Oregon have proposed outlawing most credit checks, saying the practice traps people in debt because their past financial problems prevent them from finding work.
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“There is no reason for this type of totalitarian insight. “
Exactly. Everyone should be assigned a job, because if you let employers choose to hire employees on some objective basis, that would be bad.
“The way I see it, if a company is stupid enough to reject somebody because of their credit history, they have the right to make that mistake.”
They do and they will. It is the way it should be.
I talked with a landlord once who told me he also evaluated potential tenants by how well they took care of their teeth.
It wasn’t full of trash but it wasn’t neat either.
That's prettu much how I see it as well.
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