Former U.S. Congressman and alliantgroup Senior Vice President Rick Lazio was quoted in the New York Timesin a report covering a number of different economic indicators from the month of October. In Patricia Cohen’s piece “U.S. Added 250,000 Jobs in October; Unemployment at 3.7%”, Lazio offers his personal insight on some of the positive numbers we’ve seen recently from the U.S. labor market:

“I speak to probably a thousand businesspeople a month,” said Rick Lazio, a former Republican congressman who is now a senior vice president at Alliantgroup, a tax-credit consulting firm. Midsize manufacturers are turning down lots of business, he said, “because they can’t find the people and they can’t get the equipment fast enough.”

Click here to read the full report and Lazio’s comments.