Keeping us proles in our place [View All]

The Republicon Homelander state of mind in one of it's latest manifestations.

From today's New York Times

Another Hurdle for the Jobless: Credit Inquiries

"...Once reserved for government jobs or payroll positions that could involve significant sums of money, credit checks are now fast, cheap and used for all manner of work. Employers, often winnowing a big pool of job applicants in days of nearly 10 percent unemployment, view the credit check as a valuable tool for assessing someone’s judgment..."

"How do you get out from under it? You can’t re-establish your credit if you can’t get a job, and you can’t get a job if you’ve got bad credit." - MATTHEW W. FINKIN, a University of Illinois law professor, on denying jobs to debtor

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/business/07credit.html?th&emc=th