What does your credit score really say about you?
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What does your credit score really say about you?
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Your credit score is your economic destiny. It determines where you can live, what you can buy, and sometimes even what job you can get. But how do credit bureaus come up with these all-encompassing numbers? Teo tells Clare about the data that credit scores feed on, and how little we really know about how they're calculated.
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Sources in this episode:
- Creditworthy: A history of consumer surveillance and financial identity in America, Josh Lauer, 2024
- Credit Access in the U.S., U.S. Census Bureau, 2025
- Affordable credit poised to save consumers billions, Alex Horowitz, Pew Charitable Trusts, 2023
- WA’s new ban on medical debt in credit reports at risk of federal override, Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State Standard, 2025
- Interview with Josh Lauer, Author of Creditworthy
- Interview with Alex Horowitz, Project Director at Pew Charitable Trusts
- Interview with Maya Lau, Host of Other People’s Pockets
- Interview with Jazmin, founder of Budget with Jazmin
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