Money Basics: Budgeting, Credit, Saving and Investing from Zero
Unit 3 · Lesson 1

What a Credit Score Is Counting

You can explain the five things a credit score measures and predict whether an action like paying on time, missing a payment, maxing out a card or closing an old card pushes the score up, down or nowhere.
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