I don't know about where you live, but for us in New York and thanks to Bush's last ditch effort, and Obama's new plan, unemployment lasts for 56 weeks. At the unemployment office, I was told once NY runs out after a few months that it becomes Federally subsidized. I'd look into it.

And I can't find a job anywhere that pays more than my unemployment does. I was turned down by JetBlue for a Flight Ops analyst job (one that required a pilots cert) because I was under-qualified. I have my ATP and experience with numbers and computers (basically what an analyst does). Just because I've never had a job title with the word analyst on it, they went with someone else. Oh well.