| Unemployment edges up to 4.6% in December 2020 Unemployment rose in every S.C county as the number of people working in the state dropped by more than 3,600 from November. From December 2019 to December 2020, South Carolina’s economy lost 53,200 seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs. Irmo biotechnology company receives $900,000 grant Integrated Micro-Chromatography Systems Inc. will use the National Institutes of Health grant to research how gangliosides, biomolecules which play roles in therapeutic and diagnostic processes, affect neurological functions. | 