Georgia’s latest unemployment rate is 9.7 percent for May… that’s down from 12.6 percent in April. “I think we are going to continue to see big drops in the unemployment rate as Georgia continues to open back up,” said Labor Commissioner Mark Butler.  “We have to remember that the recent unemployment was not caused by an economic catalyst, but instead by a medical emergency.  Those jobs are still out there for the most part.”

New claims for unemployment benefits are also dropping.

The Georgia Department of Labor has paid over $6 billion in state and federal jobless benefits over the past 13 weeks.