By Dannielle Slaven - Youngstown State University Once you establish your credit, you have to maintain it. We know your first priority is checking your credit report and score (yeah, right!). It doesn’t have to take top priority, but it should be a concern to you. Case in point, I recently dec...

Have you ever seen the movie Fight Club? Do you remember the last scene where Psycho Boy Jack and Marla are holding hands watching the destruction of high-rise buildings through the window? Right after Jack shoots himself in the cheek? Ok, good. Well those buildings, according to the book by origina...

So you’re probably sitting there asking yourself: What is credit? Do I need it? Why? It can be a big pain to build credit, maintain credit, etc. Trust me. I didn’t even realize it until I was a senior in college. I fell into the category of “I need money NOW” during undergrad, got the money ...

In this article today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, it talks about how employers are checking credit scores more and more. According to the article, the occurrence of credit checks done by potential employers rose from 35% in 2004 to 42% in 2005. Thats a lot. That means that not only do you have t...