My siblings and I grew up in a low-income neighborhood, but my mother takes it upon herself to ensure that my siblings and I have a good education and a supportive environment by working two jobs. So that as we grow up we will go from being a working class to being a middle class and one day we will be an upper class. My mother did her best so that my siblings and I could have social mobility by giving us a good education, so that we could move from intergenerational mobility to intragenerational mobility like Ben Carson the neurosurgeon. As we move forward in life, my mother teaches me and my siblings why she is investing so much in our education. He said it is because he has experienced poverty before and can testify that poverty can cause an early death. According to Ropers “being poor not only means economic insecurity, but also puts a strain on mental and physical health” (Ropers,