Could Your Student Loans Make You Unemployable?

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13. 100% correct!

I have raised that very point in the past here and on DU 2, and I have generally been presented with a laundry list of bogus reasons why employers are justified in prying into your financial affairs.

Simply put, there is NO valid reason for an employer to check an applicant's credit history, any more than they should be able to base employment upon political affiliation or the number of sexual partners one has had. That's true even in the finance industry; I'm sure that the Wall Street insiders who destroyed the country all had sparklingly high credit scores, for instance.

Even if one's credit score was ever an accurate guage of employability, which I doubt, it certainly is no good predictor in the lingering aftermath of Bush economic catastrophe.