Tammy's story and her son

Tammy's poverty story is devistating to anyone. The fact that Tammy works at Burger King as a Janitor all day, and has no car to get her there, shows how desperate her family is. She and her family do have goals though, she stated that she wanted to be a teacher and one of her sons wants to go to college and become an architect or a lawyer. Statistically speaking neither of them has a chance of reaching these goals or ever comming out of poverty. Once in poverty, it's almost impossible to get out. Personally I think that the son has more of a chance at his goals than his mother. The mom works all day and has no car, there's no way for her to get ahead and go to school again. But the son is in high school and is already makeing changes to his lifestlye, and the lifestyle that his mom has portrayed to him. I think that if the son really wanted, he could get ahead and out of their povery striken life.