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    When bills pile up, young people turn to strangers on Venmo

    by Suhauna Hussain, Los Angeles Times Jun 03, 2019 6 minutes

    Indira Marquez Robles felt helpless.

    Just before her comparative politics class, the 19-year-old Oglethorpe University student learned that her stepfather had been arrested on suspicion of DUI and taken into Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Georgia. A tuition payment loomed. Legal fees would pile up. With the breadwinner behind bars, her whole family would feel the purse strings tighten.

    So Marquez composed a tweet: "hey all i'm trying to keep my cool here but my dad has just been arrested ... " Her mom needed money for gas to drive from Houston to visit him, Marquez wrote, and if anyone had anything to spare, they could find her on Cash App or Venmo, mobile payment apps that let users send cash to one another with just the click of a button.

    With thousands of likes and retweets, donations broke $1,000 two days later - more than enough to cover gas for the drive.

    Venmo, owned by PayPal, and Cash App, owned by

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