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An El Dorado city alderman presented a proposal Thursday that would provide a temporary solution to major job losses that have occurred in the El Dorado and Union County in recent years and help complete some of the proposed projects in the El Dorado Forward economic development plan.

Alderman Matt Thomas patterned his proposal after the Depression-era Works Progress Administration that was instituted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to generate public works jobs for the unemployed in the U.S.

Thomas broached the topic during an El Dorado City Council agenda meeting ...