Working: US incomes rose 5.2 percent in 2015, the biggest one-year jump in median household income since 1967. The median for 2015 was $56,516; good, but not all good. That’s still 2.4 percent lower than the peak in the 1990s.

It’s a sign that the economy is crawling its way back to pre-recession levels, but Eduardo Porter issues a warning in the NY Times saying, “Gains may be finally trickling down to those at the bottom of the ladder. But the numbers still offer a lopsided picture, with a gargantuan share of income rising to the top.”

It’s Political: Donald Trump in Pennsylvania last night rolled out his proposals to relieve the burden on working families, calling for six weeks of mandatory paid maternity leave and tax credits to help offset the cost of child care. “It’s pro-family, it’s pro-child, it’s pro-worker,” Trump said in one of his first attempts to introduce actual substance into his campaign.

Hillary Clinton introduced her plan for 12 weeks of family leave more than a year ago. She would include both mothers and fathers.

Clinton has had to rely on campaign agents the past two days as she recovers from pneumonia while Trump capitalized on her absence. Campaigning in Philadelphia yesterday, President Obama praised Clinton and derided Trump saying, “We cannot afford, suddenly, to treat this like a reality show — we can’t afford to act as if there’s some equivalence here.”

Obama went on, “When we see folks talking about transparency—you want to debate transparency? You’ve got one candidate in this race who has released decades of her tax returns, the other candidate is the first in decades who refuses to release any at all.”

Clinton says she’ll return to campaigning tomorrow.

Where Charity Begins: New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman says he’s investigating questionable activity by Donald Trump’s charitable foundation, the Donald J. Trump Foundation.

In particular, the campaign gave $25,000 to the re-election campaign of Florida Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi at a time when her office was opening an investigation into Trump University. The investigation was dropped.

Trump’s people dismissed Scheniderman as “a partisan hack.”

Hacking for Sport: Russian computer hackers are being blamed for the leak of information about US athletes from the World Anti-Doping Agency. Among the revelations is that gold-medal gymnast Simone Biles and both of the tennis-playing Williams sisters have exemptions based on medical conditions to take drugs that otherwise are banned. Biles has attention-deficit disorder and the hackers, known as “Fancy Bears,” accused her of taking an “illicit psycho-stimulant.”

The Russian government denies involvement, but some people who follow the situation say it may be an act of revenge for the banishment of dozens of Russians from the Rio Olympics.

WADA director-general Olivier Niggli said, “Let it be known that these criminal acts are greatly compromising the effort by the global anti-doping community to re-establish trust in Russia.”

Nation: Chelsea Manning, the soldier originally known as Pfc. Bradley Manning when she leaked government secrets to WikiLeaks, has been given permission to proceed with gender reassignment surgery. She had been on a hunger strike. Manning, 28, announced she was transgender shortly after she was sent to prison for 35 years.

>The Wall, Street Journal reports that the company that makes the high-priced EpiPen to reverse allergic reactions has the second highest pay scale among US drug and biotech companies. The company, Mylan, is nowhere near as big as the big pharma companies like Johnson & Johnson and Bristol-Myers Squibb, but it pays that big.

>Peter Pettalia, a third-term Michigan state representative who sponsored the bill that repealed the state’s mandatory motorcycle helmet law, died of head trauma Monday in a motorcycle accident. Police said Pettalia was wearing a helmet.

Bozos: A group of school children in Macon, Ga., called the cops Tuesday after they said they were chased by a group of clowns that came out of the woods.

Reported sightings of creepy clowns have increased in recent weeks.

People say they have tried to talk to children. Police in Lagrange, Ga. warned residents after reports about “clowns in a van and in wooded areas trying to talk to children.” Clown sighting have been reported in South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia in places where Donald Trump was not campaigning.

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