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Falling behind on your bills? It could cost you a job.

The Senate is expected to vote Thursday morning to finish up the Wall Street reform bill - overcoming a last 60-vote procedural hurdle that, once cleared, assures the bill safe passage to President Obama's desk next week.

The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency got another vote of support on Friday, but it probably wouldn't cover the full range of financial products and still faces significant hurdles to winning final approval.

Some states have passed laws requiring prospective employers to show that a credit check has some relevance to the nature of the job.

As if struggling to stay afloat during a faltering economy isn't difficult enough, hundreds of small business vendors that rely on contracts with California are facing another hurdle: There's a good chance the state won't be paying any of their invoices this month.

Amid a confluence of rising tuition, exceptional competition for scholarships and his family’s financial troubles, Brennan Jackson is out to raise the $25,000 he needs to start college.

The idea of the government creating a 'bad bank' to buy up toxic assets faces a major hurdle -- how to finance it.

To solve the problem, the government may partner with the private sector to get the bad stuff off the banks' balance sheets.

Nancy Marshall Genzer reports.

Scientists at MIT have made a breakthrough which may solve the biggest hurdle to the mass adoption of solar energy: a more efficient way to store it for later use.

Dan Grech reports.