conversation: User (forgetfulnoodles): "So here's the deal. My brother and I live together with his two young children in a small house in Colorado. We both work very hard for very little and recently he was laid off from work. I have an associates degree in the culinary arts and many years experience in the industry but work my ass off for only 9$ an hour. He has been putting in applications everywhere to no avail. He's even been applying to minimum wage jobs outside of his field and at fast food restaurants and places like that just to have a job and no luck. Up until this point our landlord has worked with us. We have fallen a few months behind on rent giving him all we can. 100$ here 300$ there, any time we have any money it goes to him but we can't seem to dig ourselves out of the hole. He came over this morning because I got paid. I handed him 500$ but he said he can no longer work with us on it. He says if by the first we don't have the 2000$ we owe him, we have to be out. We have sold almost everything we own. We have been eating spaghetti and ramen for a couple months. But with what I make and with him not having a job. No amount of being frugal is helping. I have one more check coming before the first I can hand him 500$ out of. So my question is. Is there any way to make 1500$ in two weeks with little/no capitol. Any sort of online work that's not a scam. Pretty much at this point we are willing to do ANYTHING. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. We are both so stressed out its hard to even think clearly. We are doing our best to give his children a stable life and it hurts us both so much that we have been failing.\n\n\nEdit: we have food stamps though we don't get a whole lot. And we have applied for section 8 housing and rental assistance but both have a several month long wait list before we even know we will qualify "
  Self: "If your brother was laid off from work why has he not filed for unemployment benefits?"
  User (forgetfulnoodles): "He has. We moved to Colorado only a 6 months ago. Before being laid off he didn't make enough money to qualify for unemployment benefits "
  