NBC TODAY: Employers use credit scores
The consumer reporting agencies all state that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening However, last month on NBC, “TODAY” host Matt Lauer introduced a segment with this line: “This morning on TODAY’S MONEY, five ways to improve your credit score. It impacts all areas of your life from getting loans to how [...]
Employers use credit scores meme in blogosphere
A blogger with a dark fantasy, one of Fortune’s top 25 most influential liberals in U.S. media, and scores of duped blogosphere commenters come together to further the employers-use-credit-scores meme. Creditscoring.com ventures into the social media audience. How will it end?
mint.com and Experian – strange bedfellows
See if you can follow this. The players The Consumerist, a former property of notorious Gawker Media, is now owned by Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports. The move is nearly inexplicable, but, apparently, CU thinks that that is how to get young and hip. But there is a firewall. A new entity, Consumer Media LLC, [...]
Blogosphere comments on credit scores and employers
A thousand comments based on a premise stated by politicians.