The Price Tag for Obama's Antipoverty Moonshot

If there was a moonshot moment in President Obamaâ??s State of the Union speech, it involved global development. The U.S., Obama pledged, â??will join with our allies to eradicate extreme poverty in the next two decades.â? Part of that effort would involve saving the worldâ??s children from preventable deaths and â??realizing the promise of an AIDS-free generation.â?