Want a job? Better get your credit score up

Having a good credit score can do more than help people get loans, it can also help them get a job. But a bad credit score can be a huge hurdle for people looking for work, according to Fox Business.

Checking credit scores of potential employees is pretty common in the U.S. Approximately 60 percent of employers look at the credit scores of at least some of their potential employees, according to the Society for Human Resource Management.

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Depths of foreclosure crisis difficult to measure

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) – When Frank Verna pulls up to a battered, four-unit apartment building at lunch hour, he's just over a mile as the seagull flies from the gated, oceanfront palaces of South Florida's wealthiest.



But this stretch of 21st Street, pocked by homes with boarded-up windows and dead-ending at railroad tracks, is unlikely to make it to a tourism poster. Verna turns the car around in case he needs to make a quick exit and tucks a Smith & Wesson pistol into his jeans.
"Just watch your step," the real estate agent says, parting bushes grown across the building's entry path. Beyond is the darkened doorway to Unit 1 — missing its door.

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