Elizabeth Warren’s bold new crusade: Keep employers out of your credit history

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3. Yes. Nor should being out of work a long time

be held against job applicants. Some mega-corp (Sony?) got attention during the worst of the Wall Street Recession for stating in a job ad that people out of work for longer than some set period of time would not be considered (!).

We magnify marginalization. All is well if you've had decades of good fortune, with fine credit and an unbroken job history. Blow that, by bad luck or bad health or anything else, and very quickly you lose access to good jobs, housing, transportation.

We don't need to shut people out of jobs on the basis they don't have enough money.

THAT'S WHY THEY NEED THE JOB.