Every summer when I was in college I had a 20 hr/week summer job that paid $2/hour.
I lived in a room at a frat house for $50/month, ate tuna fish sandwiches almost every day, except once a week I treated myself to McDonalds.
If the unemployment rate is really 25% in No. IL which I seriously doubt except in the inner city maybe, then my advice is for people to move away and find work someplace else.