In reading the local statistics,  it says that "Lane County’s 4.7-point decrease" in Middle Income, Lower income increased by "4 percentage points", and Upper Income increased by 0.7 percentage points.  

So in Lane County,  4% got relatively poorer and the other .7 per cent got relatively richer, right?

Why does everyone seem to concentrate on those who did poorly?  

In the larger areas of Oregon the people who did better increased  2  percentage points, while the share of lower income households increased by 3.3 percentage points.   

I as k again, Why does everyone seem to concentrate on those who did poorly?

And who do we want to take money away from for "income equality"?  Those who just managed to improve from the Middle Class?  There goes incentive to improve!