The credit score that matters the most is the score that your potential lender is using to determine your creditworthiness.

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California prohibits the use of credit history to reject applicants with housing assistance without considering pay stubs and other alternatives.

A Times investigation into the whereabouts of top Syrian officials who fled after the regime’s fall shows many remain free — ...

Capital & Main investigated seven of the city's largest rental property owners and found most skirted anti-discrimination ...

MILLIONS of mortgage bills are set to fall after the Bank of England cut interest rates this afternoon. During today’s ...

In Ghana, where women form 50.7% of the 34.1 million population, more than half under 25, gender equality is not just a moral ...

States like Mississippi and Louisiana are on the lower end of the national average, around 680 to 690, while Minnesota and Wisconsin have the highest credit score averages at 742 and 738, respectively ...

A credit monitoring service can notify you when a credit application has been made in your name. Here are our favorites.

The ranks of U.S. government statisticians have been gutted in the past year due to layoffs and buyouts. That along with diminished funding and attacks on their independence have put at risk the data ...