Linda Tirado, explains not only what it is to be working poor in America (people can be poor and live in a house and have a job, even two), but what poverty is truly like; on all levels. In her thought-provoking voice, Tirado discusses how she went from lower-middle class, to sometimes middle class, to poor and everything in between, and in doing so reveals why poor people don't always behave the way middle-class America thinks they should.