I’m currently drawing unemployment from my state. My former place of work is state funded, and it took a 35% budget cut in the summer of 2009.  In August of that year, it gave roughly 30% of its workers a 90 day layoff notice.  I was part of that 30%.  Like the others who were laid off, I began searching for work immediately, hoping I’d have another job by the time that the notice had ended.  I didn’t.