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    #ShareMyCheck: Why Americans are donating their coronavirus relief checks

    May 13, 2020 4 minutes

    Fresh out of cosmetology school, Jennifer Guy was glad to start work as a hairdresser in late February. But she lost the job three weeks later as Pennsylvania closed to COVID-19. The single mom and cancer survivor from McKeesport says she hadn’t worked long enough to file for unemployment. Her two teens at home needed food. 

    Ms. Guy didn’t know where to turn – until a news story on a local Facebook group caught her eye. The Stimulus Check Exchange support group seemed nonjudgmental, she says, so she posted about her struggle. 

    Two days later, a check signed by a stranger appeared in the mail for $250. 

    “It actually was a blessing for me,” says Ms. Guy. “I really was starting to lose

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