There is a difference between surviving and feeding the system. There are many other variables. trust funds, families sharing, sustainable living ...

The system takes polls based on the system which is tax collection. Now imagine where those taxes really go -

How can you have a deficit, and so many other expenses where almost every state and city is going bust?

Remember the federal Govt. is a corporation as is every city in every state. The system is going bust because it has become corporations feeding on greed - they are not producing anything tangible relating to surviving on planet earth.

Eventually as people wake up to the truth - they get on with living and surviving which equals feeding themselves instead of feeding a dying system.

The smartest thing anyone can do in this time is to figure out how to sustain themselves without the system -

Thus - unemployment is just a political decoy to sucker the ones left still dependent upon a dying system to fight until the ship goes down.

Simply ask yourself - why isn't their fruit trees in parks?
Because if you could get it for free you wouldn't need them,
would you?

people are figuring it out - remove yourself from the system
and the system crashes -