Mayor de Blasio was cool to the suggestion by Municipal Labor Committee Chairman Harry Nespoli that he put layoffs on hold until after the presidential election Nov. 3, but he expressed support Sept. 21 for the MLC's proposal that an early-retirement incentive be passed in Albany to potentially induce tens of thousands of city workers to leave the payroll voluntarily.
"I fear that we have to think about this beyond just the election, and so I think the problem we're all experiencing here is that help just hasn't come from where we expect it to," Mr. de Blasio said in response to a reporter's question at his daily briefing. "We expect it to come from Washington and the stimulus we expect to come from Albany in the form of long-term borrowing--it hasn't. The clock is running."
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