Julie Lehman walks through the Ethan Allen store on Illinois Road with her son Grayson, 4. Janelle Sou Roberts | The Journal Gazette
Julie Lehman walks through the Ethan Allen store on Illinois Road with her son Grayson, 4. Janelle Sou Roberts | The Journal Gazette
By Sherry Slater, The Journal Gazette

The subprime mortgage fallout is infecting other industries like a friendly first-grader with chicken pox.

New and existing home sales are suffering, of course. And now those industries that had been buoyed by strong housing sales are sagging as well. Furniture retailers are among those walking wounded.

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