Debt-ceiling deal’s work requirements would hurt poor people, advocates warn

A deal to raise the debt ceiling, struck by President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy this past weekend and approved in a 314-to-117 House vote Wednesday, could leave low-income people in the lurch thanks to expanded work requirements and potentially weaker rental assistance, advocates say.

But the agreement, which now must clear the Senate, might be the country’s best way out of a catastrophic debt default in June. The deal would suspend the government’s borrowing limit until January 2025 in exchange…