The essay written by Lisa Tirado, “This Is Why Poor People’s Bad Decision Make Perfect Sense” is a fascinating story of her personal experiences struggling to overcome poverty.  Therefore, it gave us the inside story based on her everyday routine as a mother, wife and a worker.  Working on low wage employments does not seem to get her nowhere and due to the lack of stability and poor financial decisions evades her from making long-term plans for the future.

Many families across America dealing with poverty and similar issues like Lisa, try to live a stable life with dignity and provide necessities for their children, appear to be difficult . In terms of annual wages increasing a low percentage, and the cost of good highly rising. However, many corporate companies may be responsible for not giving equal opportunities to employees based on discrimination and lack of support. Tirado justify that due to her image, lessen her chances of being promote into a position based on expectations of appearance and the only image she fit was working on the back hidden.  Many people experience these difficulties that keep them from being successful in an employment as well as overcoming poverty and risk of homelessness.