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Your credit score will play a big role in what rate you get. Here’s how to boost it. (iStock)

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Strategies for fighting financial anxiety during the pandemic
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Beverly Harzog, credit expert with U.S. News and World Report, talks about economic hardships and the current state of the economy under COVID-19.