Payments in support of children have appreciably reduced child poverty in real time, but have also produced more benefits. President Lyndon Johnson, invoking the idea of the Great Society for the first time, articulated a war on child poverty in his 1964 speech at Ohio University. Without an extension of the CTC, child poverty is projected to double in 2022. Second, the cash transfers in combination with more poverty-alleviating measures would have an even more aggressive impact on ending child poverty. Moral and ethical obligations aside, child poverty is expensive: an estimated $800 billion to $1.1 trillion annually in health expenditures, lost productivity, and higher crime.