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...

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...