Hartford, CT becomes first city in country to ban usage of credit scores in hiring

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The city of Hartford says it will no longer screen job applicants' credit scores as a condition of employment, hailed by advocacy groups as the first municipal ordinance of its kind in the nation.

City Council earlier this week voted to end the practice.

The group Connecticut to follow suit, joining at Maryland, Washington and Hawaii where similar legislation was adopted.

"It's appalling that a majority of American employers now use credit checks as part of the hiring process despite the ample social science research that shows negative credit reports have absolutely no correlation to job performance," said Demos President Miles Rapoport, Connecticut's former secretary of the state.

http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news18476.html

Hopefully the first city out of many more to come to put an end to this practice which does nothing but ensure that the unemployed stay unemployed.

[plumbob]

1. Good, now let's get credit scores out of insurance coverage, too.

In fact, until they can get the errors out of the 78% of files that have them, fuck those credit scores. Make them publish the algorithm that generates it, too. It's a blackbox operation now filled with errors that costs people billions annually.

[FiveGoodMen]

2. Good!