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Emergency unemployment benefits will expire unless Congress renews them by Nov. 30.

The reason is that the Unemployment Compensation Act of 2010, which provides an additional 53 weeks of federal benefits to eligible workers who exhaust their 26 weeks of benefits from the regular state-funded unemployment compensation program, will end.

By Laura Chapin
Posted on Huffington Post/Denver

If you're a parent whose post-college graduate child has returned to sleeping at your home, you're not alone. And if you're a recent college graduate who has been out there beating the employment bushes and finding them beating you right back, you are also not alone.