I had a friend (nearly 60 years old) who just lost her job after 27 years there. She is eligible for unemployment and can get up to $5000 to take courses toward a graduate degree (she already has an undergrad degree). She had previously been reluctant to go back to school after all these decades because she couldn’t afford it and was working a ton of hours. Hopefully she will now go back to take some courses, as she has some tentative job offers which require her to take at least a few more courses.