Many unemployed don't apply for UI. I have averaged 3 jobs per year for 50+ years. I probably average 3 days between jobs. The longest gap was 5 months and that was because I was turning down jobs beneath my wife's opinion of me. 80% of gaps have had 0 days between jobs. Whether 2 weeks notice or 2 minutes notice of termination, I usually find a new mainframe consulting position within hours. I currently receive 2 or 3 unsolicited mainframe calls a week. I can be at Radio Shack, Home Depot, Ace Hardware, insurance inspector, etc in hours if mainframe is not there. (I never touched computers till my mid-40's when I started one of many new careers.)
#2. How is it that immigrants from India find computer jobs here at only 10% less than my high rate? How is it that Mexicans illiterate in Spanish, with no papers, find jobs here at $20/hr. Oh pity, they actually have to work and get dirty on those jobs. For them, that is macho. But macho is not IN for some wimps.
Options: Send the jobs to foreign countries.
Bring the foreign workers here.
Convince Americans there is more dignity in any job, than in entitlements.
Grow the economy so there are jobs for everyone in their chosen field.
The other advantage those guys have is they aren't expected to pay income tax on contract work they do ----they don't always earn $20 an hour ---sometimes only $4 or $5 but without Social Security, FICA and the all the rest stolen from them, they can live quite well and still have $1000 to send back to Mexico. Plus they don't mind having their kids getting a free lunch and since they don't buy health insurance they don't have to worry about medical bills either. I know an American guy that tried to set up his business as "contract" labor, he was self-employed and the INS came after him after a few years ----ironically he fled to Mexico to avoid being put into prison.