A deal to raise the U.S. debt ceiling reached by Republican and Democratic negotiators this past weekend could leave low-income people in the lurch thanks to expanded work requirements and potentially weaker rental assistance, advocates say.
But the agreement might be the country’s best way out of a catastrophic debt default in June. The deal, which still has to clear a divided Congress after President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached it this past weekend, would suspend the government’s borrowing…
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