Scoring credit

Story date: 2007-10-29 12:12:00
Added on: 2007-10-29 22:00:20

Baltimore Sun - Credit scores have increasingly become a screening device to determine not only the interest rate on a home mortgage or a car loan but also whether a poor person can rent an apartment or get a job. It's a problem that calls for more flexibility on ...


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