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Another Sunny Day and Some Good Economic News
The Paulding forecast couldn't be better, but patients of a Hiram chiropractor arrested on charges of bilking patients may be feeling under the weather.
1. Today will be mostly sunny with a high near 75. A west wind will develop at 5 to 10 mph. Winds could gust as high as 15 mph. Tonight look for mostly clear skies with a low around 45. West wind around 5 mph becoming calm. To check Paulding's weekend weather forecast go to the National Weather Service.
2. Review the National Day of Prayer services in the area at Dallas-Hiram Patch. Three events where held in Paulding, a with New York 9/11 responders who now live in Paulding speaking, sponsored by the , and noontime services in .
3. Paulding County's new unemployment claims decreased last month, dropping the overall unemployment rate to 10 percent in March, down from 10.7 percent for the same month in 2010. Paulding Chamber of Commerce President Carolyn Delamont told the Neighbor Newspapers the decrease is a "really good sign" that the county's economy is on the mend.
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4. Doctors are supposed to make you well, but we don't think the patients of Hiram chiropractor Christopher Lockerman are feeling too good. Lockerman, 42, of Lockerman Family Chiropractic, was arrested Wednesday and charged with eight counts of financial identity fraud and one count of theft by deception in a case that involves the from patients.
5. On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA), one of many Great Depression relief programs created under the auspices of the Emergency Relief Appropriations Act, which Roosevelt had signed the month before. Out of the 10 million jobless men in the United States in 1935, 3 million were helped by WPA jobs alone.
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While FDR believed in the elementary principles of justice and fairness, he also expressed disdain for doling out welfare to otherwise able workers. So, in return for monetary aid, WPA workers built highways, schools, hospitals, airports and playgrounds. Opponents of the New Deal in Congress gradually pared back WPA appropriations in the years leading up to World War II.