{"id":296,"date":"2013-02-13T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=296"},"modified":"2013-02-13T15:29:19","modified_gmt":"2013-02-13T15:29:19","slug":"from-luxury-to-foodstamps-one-story-of-conn-s-economic-ladder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"From luxury to foodstamps: One story of Conn.&#8217;s economic ladder"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_298\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mathis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-298\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mathis-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Ken Mathis, in his New Canaan apartment\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-298\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mathis-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/mathis-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-298\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Mathis, in his New Canaan apartment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Some social service workers say they\u2019re seeing more people coming to them for help who used to be on the rich end of Connecticut&#8217;s economic spectrum.  That&#8217;s the case for Ken Mathis, who used to live in a 5,500 square foot house in New Canaan when he was partner at a number of top business consulting firms and technology companies. Today, he gets by with the help of food stamps and Medicaid. Here&#8217;s his story:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/lemoult_mathis_130212.mp3\">lemoult_mathis_130212<\/a><br \/>\nHave you seen similar stories of people&#8217;s path down Connecticut&#8217;s steep economic ladder? Let us know. What does their experience say about the state&#8217;s economic disparity? Coming up soon on &#8220;State of Disparity,&#8221; we&#8217;ll share stories of people at the bottom, trying to work their way up that ladder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some social service workers say they\u2019re seeing more people coming to them for help who used to be on the rich end of Connecticut&#8217;s economic spectrum. That&#8217;s the case for Ken Mathis, who used to live in a 5,500 square foot house in New Canaan when he was partner at a number of top business [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-income"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stateofdisparity.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}