To receive unemployment, require participation in a community event once per month. Doesn't matter what it is just help improve our local communities.
Pay people to create energy. If unemployed and over weight, this is an excellent way to kill three birds w/ one stone. The volunteer becomes employed by receiving a paycheck and pay is equal to the amount of energy created vs. equal cost of oil. The individual benefits from the exercise reducing the nation’s weight crisis.
Innovation is the reason America is the powerhouse we are today. We must continue to invest in the area while reducing aid to countries whose goal is to destroy our way of life. Specifically the use of gravity and electro magnetic energy vs. oil.