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    • Coronavirus: Business & Economy Updates

    The Georgia Deparment of Labor has been swamped with applications for jobless benefits since March. (AJC file photo)
    News
    Georgia jobless claims rise as COVID cases climb
    778,000 More Americans Filed First-Time Unemployment Claims Last Week
    Local News
    For Georgia’s economy, path for the next few months is precarious
    Brooklynn McCarty, 8, (R) and her twin sister Madison, 8, talk with Santa Clause at the Perimeter Mall Sunday, November 22, 2020 STEVE SCHAEFER / SPECIAL TO THE AJC
    Georgia News
    Socially distant Santas try new techniques at Georgia malls, stores
    Pandemic-related safety messages are a staple at Lenox Square mall in Atlanta as the holiday shopping season unfolds. MATT KEMPNER / AJC
    Georgia News
    Metro Atlanta shoppers and malls brace for holiday rush amid pandemic
    Wes Moss is the host of the radio show “Money Matters,” which airs from 9-11 a.m. Sundays on News 95.5 and AM 750 WSB. (Courtesy of Nick Burchell)
    Business
    Wes Moss: Vaccine news in America is a time to remember
    A Home Depot customer pushes a cart loaded with supplies. Home Depot has benefitted from a pandemic-spurred surge of online orders and do-it-yourself improvements.. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
    Georgia News
    Home Depot boosts worker pay as profits rise
    Vickie Mitchell, right, co-owner of Mitchell Appliance Company in Douglasville, talks to a customer on the phone as longtime customer Lori Brangan waits for a part to repair her dryer Thursday afternoon, Nov. 5, 2020. Mitchell said she is having a hard time getting appliances because the pandemic has slowed manufacturing. She also said that parts sales are up because people are repairing their current appliances more due to the shortage. Ben Gray / For the AJC
    News
    Pandemic creates longer waits for home appliances
    L.H. Couch, a 76-year-old retired IT executive, rides his exercise Trikke on a virtually empty level of a parking deck beside once-bustling Sandy Spring office towers. Many office employees are still working from home, in what started as temporary moves after the coronavirus pandemic hit locally. Some employers are making changes as short-term job rearrangements have grown long term. JOHN AMIS FOR THE ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
    Georgia News
    Former Atlanta office workers hunker down for the long, virtual haul
    Courtesy of UPS
    Atlanta Airport Blog
    Union says it has seen increase in COVID-19 among UPS pilots
    Georgia News
    Some federal pandemic aid ending, though Georgia job market still weak
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