在威斯康星州第三国会选区的众议院竞选中，负担能力和小企业的经济困境占据了重要位置。
在经营了18年之后，Erin Klaus 将于年底关闭她在威斯康星州欧克莱尔市中心的实体店——一家名为 Tangled Up in Hue 的手工艺品市场。
Affordability and small businesses’ economic woes feature heavily in the House race for Wisconsin’s third district After 18 years in business, Erin Klaus is closing her storefront, a handmade artisan market in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin, at the end of the year.
她是在经济衰退期间开设这家店的，当时市中心“简直像座鬼城”，她熬过了建设施工和疫情。但目前的经济危机证明难以承受。她已连续两年见证销售额下滑，不得不从她在商业非营利组织 Downtown Eau Claire Inc 担任执行董事的另一份工作的收入中倒贴工资发给员工。
She opened Tangled Up in Hue amid a recession, during a time when downtown was “kind of a ghost town”, weathering construction and the pandemic. But the current economic crisis proved too much. She’s seen a downward trend in sales for two years, and was dipping into her own pocket from her other job, as the executive director of business non-profit Downtown Eau Claire Inc, to pay staff.
