20190428smsChildPoverty16

Zack Tanner
ztanner@post-gazette.com

 

July 15, 2019

Anthony Brown, 8, crosses another day off of his calendar before going to bed on Wednesday, April 3, 2019, at his home straddling Saltlick and Bullskin. Despite her exhaustion from her breast cancer, Anthony’s mother Mary Beth works to make each day count with her children, not sure if each holiday will be her last one to celebrate with them. “Come look at my kids’ faces, and if you’re their mother, you’re not going to lie down,” she says.