Latest News in Credit History and Jobs – Aug 7, 2009

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The Unemployed’s Newest Enemy: Cheap Credit Reports – Gawker

7 Aug 2009 at 2:03am
As if America’s jobless weren’t screwed enough ? more employers are running credit checks on potential employees for jobs that involve no financial decisions, so you’d better pay your bills on time even if you don’t have a job! Credit checks on …

Credit checks trap the jobless – Raleigh News & Observer

7 Aug 2009 at 1:56am
Digging out of debt keeps getting harder for the unemployed as more companies use detailed credit checks to screen job prospects. Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting on Hotjobs …

Credit checks surprise job applicants – United Press International

7 Aug 2009 at 6:50am
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 7 (UPI) — Credit checks not related to their jobs are a surprise factor in being turned down for employment, U.S. job seekers said. “Why would they need to pull a credit report? They’d need something like that if you were applying …

Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries – Herald Tribune

7 Aug 2009 at 5:31am
Out of work since December, Juan Ochoa was delighted when a staffing firm recently responded to his posting on Hotjobs.com with an opening for a data entry clerk. Before he could do much more, though, the firm checked his credit history. The interest …

‘Change’ Voters Now Feeling Cautious – NationalJournal.com

7 Aug 2009 at 5:31am
What do the first six months of Barack Obama’s presidency and his agenda’s loss of momentum tell us? Perhaps that Americans who seemed so gung-ho for change in 2007 and most of 2008 subtly shifted gears last fall — and nobody noticed. Voters …

We Need More Protest to Make Reform Possible – Common Dreams

7 Aug 2009 at 6:28am
One of the rare examples of civil disobedience occurred in late July, when more than 100 people, mobilized by the community organizing group ACORN , gathered outside a foreclosed home in Oakland and attempted to take it back on behalf of its owner …

Broken promises of Fed discretion – Delaware Online

7 Aug 2009 at 6:35am
The Queen of England recently heard from her nation’s economic experts, who wrote to apologize for their profession’s inability to predict the financial crisis. It’s different in the U.S. Here, economists don’t apologize to the throne. They sit on it …

Thomas Cook – A courageous struggle – Indymedia Ireland

7 Aug 2009 at 6:14am
Blog Feeds Cedar Lounge For Lefties too Stubborn to Quit August 1969 in History Ireland 07:47 Fri Aug 07, 2009 | WorldbyStorm Ooops?men overboard 07:56 Thu Aug 06, 2009 | WorldbyStorm Area man pleads with state to continue to give tax reliefs to …

THE TERRIFYING RISE OF LOAN SHARKS – Daily Express

7 Aug 2009 at 4:41am
BRIAN Shields was a strapping six-footer who in his mum?s words could look after himself. Yet in the days before he hanged himself at the family home, she?d seen him crying like a baby as a loan shark pursued him for an unpaid debt. Sucked into a …

Public Savings Bank Enhances Its Secured Credit Card Program – Earthtimes

31 Jul 2009 at 4:28am
HUNTINGDON VALLEY, Pa., July 31 /PRNewswire/ — Public Savings Bank is pleased to announce a new streamlined approval process for its Visa secured credit card. With a secured credit card, the customer deposits money into an FDIC-insured account where …

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