Business Groups in Md. Still Want Credit Checks for Potential Hires

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A proposal to ban the use of credit checks in evaluating most potential employees has once again drawn opposition from business interests concerned with losing a tool they say is critical to finding reliable workers.

Supporters argue many of Maryland's 220,000 unemployed are unfairly handicapped by their recession-battered finances and the lower credit scores that come as a result of late credit card payments, foreclosures and bankruptcies.

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Business Groups in Md. Still Want Credit Checks for Potential Hires

"During this period, with so much unemployment, we find that credit reports should be used to check people's ability to pay, not to work," Sen. Catherine E. Pugh said during...

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