<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22137" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22146">Article in the Washington Post with more questions than answers. However, there's a great interactive map that shows by county when median household income peaked.</span></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22137" dir="ltr"><span id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22208"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/sf/business/2014/12/12/why-americas-middle-class-is-lost/" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22207">Why America’s middle class is lost</a><br></span></div><div style="width:450px; font-family: 'Georgia', 'Times', 'Times New Roman', 'serif';margin-top:5px; margin-bottom: 5px; background-color: #ffffff;" contenteditable="false" id="enhancrCard_0" class="link-enhancr-attachment link-enhancr-element"><table class="link-enhancr-element" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" style="width:450px; height:170px; position: relative; display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22233"><tbody id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22232"><tr class="link-enhancr-element" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22414"><td class="link-enhancr-element" colspan="8" style="height: 1px; 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margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: FranklinITCProBold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 1.5em; -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22179"><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Latah</span><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22178"> County</span>, <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Idaho</span></h5><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22138"><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22180">The inflation-adjusted median household income in</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class=""> </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; border-radius: 3px; padding: 1px 3px; -webkit-user-select: auto !important; background-color: rgba(89, 22, 11, 0.4);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22188"><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Latah</span><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22190"> County</span>, <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22189">Idaho</span></span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22187">, peaked in</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class=""> </span><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22186">1969</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22185"> </span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22184">at $</span><span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22183">46,249</span><span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22182">.</span> </div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22139"><br></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22139"><h5 class="" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: FranklinITCProBold, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.2em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); text-rendering: optimizelegibility; font-size: 1.5em; -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22446"><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Whitman</span><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22445"> County</span>, <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Wash.</span></h5><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22447">The inflation-adjusted median household income in <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important; border-radius: 3px; padding: 1px 3px; background-color: rgba(89, 22, 11, 0.4);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22471"><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">Whitman</span><span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22470"> County</span>, <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22473">Wash.</span></span>, peaked in <span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">1969</span> at $<span class="" style="-webkit-user-select: auto !important;">47,810</span>.</div><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22448"><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-family: FranklinITCProLight, Helvetica-light, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22472">In 81 percent of America’s counties, the median income is lower today than it was 15 years ago.</span><br></div><div class="" style="margin-bottom: 10px; font-family: FranklinITCProLight, 'Franklin Gothic', 'ITC Franklin Gothic', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 1.1em; line-height: 1.3em; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); -webkit-user-select: auto !important;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22448"><br class="" style=""></div></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22139"><br></div><div class="signature" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1418396070581_22139">Ron Force<br>Moscow Idaho USA</div></div></body></html>