You have too much here to really wade through. First, ride the bus (or carpool) to this current job. If they've cut your hours, they can match a bus schedule.
Finish your degree, then you will be more powerful. Now you are tied to a location / city that is saturated with people of your talent. Check with your school counselor about food stamps, or food assistance.
They will have some ideas, until you get a better job anyway. Try and unwind all the hurt, pain, desperation, and frustration from a "business plan". Work the plan.
EDIT: "There is no bus by my current job. The nearest bus stop is 10+miles away." Note I also said "carpool".
I have a bus stop within a quarter mile of both my endpoints, but they take longer to make the trip than would riding a horse the same distance. So I also drive. If you cannot afford to work there, then you'll have to do food service work somewhere closer to either home or school.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.