The Unemployment Payment Issue

The main reason Americans work is to provide.  Provide food and money for themselves and their families.  Well what if you get laid off of a job?  What if you can't find employment?  Now we are entering into the realm of Unemployment.  There are individuals who do not want to work and just want to get paid for nothing.  These are not the people I am talking about here. 
I will be writing about people who want to work.  What if I told you that I would pay you $3,000 a month while you look for work and you can extend that beyond a year or two, or you can take some of the only jobs available and make around $1,500 a month?  In this situation any one who analyzes the situation would look past any pride and take the $3,000 a month.  Yes I said look past the pride, what I mean here is something that against all cognitive recognition you make a irresponsible decision because you think you are better than that.  I know that many people fight this demon until they can bring sense or reason to themselves but there are some who will never take unemployment because of it. 
So back to the main point, if you choose to take the $3,000 and stay on unemployment then no one will work the jobs that are open and numbers of people will grow on unemployment.  How can we fix this?  Well I do not have all the answers, as a matter of fact I don't have many answers.  I do , however, know many people who have been in these trials and have spoken to them.  I have bounced ideas off of them.  This is the most logical and responsible idea this average Wooly can come up with. 
First, decrease the amount of extensions and time a person can be on Unemployment.  Second, reward those who are working with a bonus of some sort.  The bonus can be anything maybe food cards to a restaurant or something more needed for the home.  Third, pay the difference of the lower level jobs and the unemployment.  So you would be paying $1,500 out of unemployment and the person would be earning $1,500 on the job and would get a monthly perk for working.  This will allow more of the open jobs to be filled, it will cost tax payers less, it will put people in jobs where they can be covered while working up a ladder to what they previously earned, and it will put people in the aggressive position to find work rather than waiting for work.  Overall I feel that this is a step but not the step needed to make this the program that it should be.