Between 2000 and 2006, median income dropped by 5.4% for working-age families. (House Committee on Governmental Reform, 2006) One source of this decline is the outsourcing and offshoring of white collar jobs. For example, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers reported a 2.5% drop in income in electrical/electronics manufacturing versus a 16.2% increase in offshore manufacturing in 2004. At the same time, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that computer programming jobs dropped more than 24%--from 745,000 in 2000 to 564,000 in 2004. The number of employed electrical and electronics engineers shrunk by 101,000, from 444,000 in 2000 to 343,000 last year, a drop of nearly 23%. Computer scientists and systems analysts have experienced similar losses, falling more than 16%, from 835,000 in 2000 to 700,000 in 2004. (ElectronicDesign.com)