What would it be like to live on less than $800 a month unemployment? Your wife is pregnant and is on doctor-prescribed bedrest, you have a preschooler, you were let go when the factory closed, you have space heaters trying to keep the place warm when it's 9 degrees out because you got so far behind on your gas bill last year you don't have the money to catch it up. You are hunting for jobs but nothing's panning out. You couldn't make your last rent because the layoff was so recent, and you're afraid that your landlord is going to kick you out pretty soon here. What would that be like? As I listened to his story, I thought, desperate.