This is scary. North Carolina, the state I live in, just eliminated extended unemployment, and slashed short term weekly benefits by almost half. Without the safety net of extended unemployment, my family would have had exactly 0 income last year when my brother was laid off and we were both job searching. I'm vigorously searching for a second job now to try to make ends meet, as is almost everyone else I work with, but it's about to become a whole lot harder to find the sort of jobs society thinks I'm qualified for, and even harder to find any sort of security. I have the option of taking on debt and trying to go to college, but there's still no guarantee that I could find a job. All of my friends who have been through college have had to take minimum wage jobs outside of their fields, and are still unable to pay their loans back, so this supposed "option" is not appealing to me. I just don't know how to climb out of this poverty I've been born into. It's not just me, either. This seems to be the theme song of my generation. All I can do is keep submitting my application, and keep hoping.