USA TODAY story on employers and credit scores, 8/11/2003
Gannett outlet fails to provide its source, saying it happened too long ago
Also, see
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National Financial Literacy Month, 2011 (video),
Myth: Employers use credit scores
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- What the President said
- Credit bureaus claim that they do not provide credit scores for employment screening
- Groundhog Day, 2012
- Groundhog Day, 2011
- Credit scores in employment, Believers and Nonbelievers
- Video: Media say employers use scores (2009)
- Federal Reserve on credit scores used by employers, 2009
- Federal Reserve on credit scores used by employers, 2010
- Federal Reserve on credit scores used by employers, 2010 (one more time)
- Members of Congress say credit scores are used by employers
- Members of Congress say credit scores are used by employers II
- Members of Congress say credit scores are used by employers III
- U.S. House representative testifies employers use credit scores
- U.S. Treasury Suggests Employers Use Credit Scores
- DoD agency states it does not use credit scores for security clearances
- White House credit score requirements
- Mentions of credit scores in employment in Oregon
- Washington attorney general on what "can" and "may" happen
- FICO company warns employers use credit scores that credit reporting agencies deny providing
- TransUnion employers survey credit report question error
- Training TransUnion on credit scores, employers
- Equifax: Employers can know your credit score
- Training Equifax on credit scores, employers
- Experian: Employers use credit scores
- Training Experian on credit scores, employers
- VantageScore: Employers use credit scores
- Employers using credit scores blogger meme
- Canada Day: Reuters, FICO and the employers myth
- USA TODAY will not reveal its source
- USA TODAY will not reveal its source II
- McClatchy newspaper will not identify its sources
- AP reports legislator said employers use credit scores
- Dallas Morning News on employers using Equifax credit scores and reports
- Influence: Hearst; San Francisco Chronicle
- Influence: Tribune; LA Times
- Credit score use by employers depiction by CBS
- Influence: CBS
- U.S. PIRG fails to prove employers use credit scores
- Influence: Consumers Union
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Influence > Media > Conglomerates > Gannett > USA TODAY, August 11, 2003
3/6/2010
Some information etched into the walls of the internet may never go away, and worse, you may never know who said it. Here is an example of that searchable, indexed folklore available to 6 billion people that seems to be getting worse.
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From: creditscoring.com
To: Sandra Block, USA TODAY
Subject: Re: credit score, employers II
Sent: April 7, 2009
Please reply.
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Maybe the accuracy police can help.
It worked!
Darn.
To: J. Malveaux, J. Harris, Jennifer Hughes; SHRM
From: creditscoring.com
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: Sent: April 9, 2009
Do you claim that employers use credit scores?
(copy of email correspondence with USA TODAY)
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Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
From: Jennifer Hughes, SHRM
To: creditscoring.com
Sent: April 9, 2009
Hi Greg,
According to SHRM’s 2006 Weapons in the Workplace Survey, 42% of surveyed employers run credit checks on potential employees as part of routine background checks. In SHRM’s 2004 Reference and Background Checking Survey, 19% of surveyed employers said they always used credit checks as a type of information in a background check, 24% sometimes used credit checks, and 18% rarely used credit checks.
If you have any other questions, let me know.
Thanks,
Jenny
Jennifer Hughes
Media Affairs Specialist
Society for Human Resource Management
[address]
Phone: [number]
E-mail: [email address]
www.shrm.org
HR Leadership for the New Economy. Only at the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition.
June 28 – July 1, 2009 | New Orleans, La.
Find out more at www.shrm.org/conferences/annual.
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Just one clarification:
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To: Jennifer Hughes, SHRM
From: creditscoring.com
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: April 9, 2009
Thank you.
What are the survey results regarding credit scores (a single number calculated from a person's credit history), specifically?
Do any of the survey questions use the term "credit score"?
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Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
From: Jennifer Hughes, SHRM
To: creditscoring.com
Hi Greg,
Neither survey discusses credit scores, only credit checks.
Sorry!
Thanks,
Jenny
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Sorry? Sorry?
Ha-ha! Don't be sorry. Watch this!
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To: Sandra Block, USA TODAY
From: creditscoring.com
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: April 9, 2009
What correction will you make?
(copy of email correspondence with SHRM)
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From: Sandra Block, USA TODAY
To: creditscoring.com
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: April 9, 2009, 5:19 PM
Let me check with my editors, thanks.
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From: Sandra Block, USA TODAY
To: creditscoring.com
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: April 9, 2009, 5:45 PM
I'm sorry, I didn't realize you were referring to a story from five years ago. I don't know the original source material for that column. We get a lot of press releases.
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Curses. Foiled again!
Gannett wins because rules are rules: If a story is over 5 years old, you can leave it on your server for everybody to read for the rest of time— even if you can't cite your sources.
Hey, wait a minute— ah-HA!
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To: Sandra Block, USA TODAY
From: "creditscoring.com"
Subject: RE: credit score, employers III
Sent: April 9, 2009
Last month's story to which you referred, at http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/credit/2009-03-05-economy-credit-scores_N.htm, makes the same assumption:
"And if scores can drop even if consumers do nothing wrong, they say, it raises the question of whether there's a flaw in the credit scoring formulas relied upon by the nation's lenders, insurers, and increasingly employers and landlords."
Will you request that the writer and your editors identify the sources?
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Watch what happened with that story, and this one at another Gannett outlet.
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