No severance layoff has hit hard and I need help

I'm Donovan, and if the no severance didn't make the layoff difficult enough, the investor shut down the company without warning and refused to pay the last two pay periods. So, I found out in October that I had actually been laid off at the beginning of September. Illegal? Yes, but if I ever see the money I worked for it won't be before the holidays since the company was closed down.

To add insult to injury, when I tried to break my lease to reduce my overhead my landlords are only willing to do it with a sizable fee. The $6,300 is just to pay rent and that fee to get out of my current lease. Anything beyond that will go to bills and life expenses. The real amount I will probably need to get through the year is $8,500, but breaking this lease is the most important bit. If I can get out of this lease I can drop my overhead to where unemployment insurance covers 80% of my costs.

I've been job hunting, but the tech sector hasn't opened back up from the previous round of layoffs earlier this year. One job LinkedIn referred to me already had over 2,000 applicants—finding an interview is like winning the lottery right now. And as a disclaimer the baby is my nephew, but all recent photos of me are with him and that is the one that I look the least bad in.