By 3 p.m. Monday, the Georgia legal community had raised $371,919 for food banks around the state, but the need for nourishment will remain high.

Rajeev Dhawan, director of the Georgia State University Economic Forecasting Center, told the Georgia Recorder last week that, even though the rate of job losses is slowing—with Georgia around 1.1 million since the beginning of COVID-19 social distancing—the number of jobless will continue to increase, especially as gig workers and independent contractors who were not previously eligible for benefits apply.

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