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Work requirements for federal aid programs emerged as a key sticking point in negotiations between President Joe Biden and Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy over raising the federal debt ceiling ...

Work requirements in two safety net programs for low-income Americans are set to change under the compromise debt ceiling package negotiated by President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.

Among Republican lawmakers's list of demands in their debt-ceiling negotiations with the Biden Administration is a push to add more work requirements for the food-stamp, Medicaid and Temporary ...

House Republicans are using the debt ceiling standoff to advocate for one of their longstanding goals – requiring more low-income Americans to work in order to receive government benefits, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about financial planning and investing. You might ask how the debt ceiling could ever be breached. Each year, Congress ...

Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Tuesday said work requirements for public assistance programs are a nonnegotiable in debt ceiling talks, laying out one of his first hard stances ahead of an ...