Capital of U.S. Income Gap Festers Amid Connecticut Mansions

Bloomberg Businessweek reports:

Growing up in poverty on the streets of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Carlos Gonzalez sold heroin and crack cocaine and eventually landed in jail. Now he cleans the kitchens of Greenwich private schools and of financial companies UBS AG and Royal Bank of Scotland in Stamford.

“It’s hard to see the wealth -- it feels so out of reach,” said Gonzalez, 42, who lives less than a mile from the now-demolished public housing project where his grandmother raised him in Connecticut’s largest and fourth-poorest city. “I will never have that. So I just pray to God every day to give me the strength to go to work and do the right thing.”

The Blue state model.