Even if it's necessary, how do you manage to move if you have zero dollars, empty tank (or no car), constant calls from collectors (if your phone is hooked up)...
The point is, if you aren't going to do BIG, at least revive the 'new deal'. Unemployment shouldn't mean you don't have a job, it should mean you have the default job; sure that job might be underemployment and you might be underpaid relative to your skills, but you still have a job, a way of actually making the ends meet. Let's also finish the job of providing the other basic rights that a society expecting people to live in a city instead of carving their own village out of the wilderness should. Basic food, shelter, security, and health/death care.
Sometimes it's not hard, but impossible.