Georgia's Brian Kemp Ends COVID Unemployment in Effort to Get More People Back to Work On 5/13/21 at 2:11 PM EDT Georgia Governor Brian Kemp said during a Thursday interview he will end the state's participation in federal coronavirus-related unemployment benefits. The move, he said, is to encourage people to get back to work. Georgia Governor Brian Kemp speaks during a press conference in Atlanta on August 10, 2020. Kemp said this week Georgia's participation in federal pandemic unemployment programs will end on June 26. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty "We've got to get more people in the workforce," Kemp said during a segment on Fox News'