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Increases. there's been $2 trillion worth of cuts. a lot of that went into the states budgets, then from the states to the cities themselves. then as the economy worsens, more people in cities become -- fall into poverty and become people who, in fact, need services rather than people who are productive. it's a combination of things. it's very, very difficult for cities. but cities have to make tough choices. when i became mayor we had the largest deficit in terms of percentage of revenue in any city in history. we had to cut programs, renegotiate programs, cut workers, those are contentious t...

Current administration. the second thing is disposable income is inching up, but you don't have a dollar more in your pocket now than you did back in 2008. it's flat since then and i think that toby mentioned housing problems, they're informing up. unless you bought a house before 2000, you haven't made a time and that's what people look for. >> brenda: oh, i'm very depressed. you took the smile off my face, i'm depressed. >> you probably bought your house in 1999, so you're in-- >> let me ask julian, the fiscal give. what is on your radar screen and telling you where the economy is headed? >>...

Raises and their uniform allowances, so we have taken this measure to suspend those portions of their contract. >> so it's a freeze? no one is getting fired, no one is losing, no one is getting a lower salary or lower pay. >> correct. >> except to the extent you don't get overtime and your expectation may be lower? >> correct. we are doing that, we've balanced our budget and paid all our bills this year. we very a budget ready for next year and we are moving forward. now, we've been taken to court by our employees. if the city is not able to do this, it will unfortunately mean layoffs. so the ...

Raises and their uniform allowances, so we have taken this measure to suspend those portions of their contract. >> so it's a freeze? no one is getting fired, no one is losing, no one is getting a lower salary or lower pay. >> correct. >> except to the extent you don't get overtime and your expectation may be lower? >> correct. we are doing that, we've balanced our budget and paid all our bills this year. we very a budget ready for next year and we are moving forward. now, we've been taken to court by our employees. if the city is not able to do this, it will unfortunately mean layoffs. so the ...

good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. and "outfront" tonight, exposed super pacs drop the fig leaf. after months of being in the dark about whose bankrolling the candidates, we have answers. now, you know that the super pacs are groups that can raise unlimited money and you know they're major players this election season. the federal election commission says this election might cost $11 billion. twice as much as 2008. and that jump thanks in no small part to super pacs. there are more than 300 of them already. so, today, we poored through hundreds of pages of super pac documents,...