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On December 23, 2011, the House and Senate passed H.R. 3765, also called the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011, and President Obama signed it the same day. The bill's effect was to extend lower payroll tax rates past December 31, 2011, when they would have expired. [7]
Achieve’s Care Fund is a company-wide resource for employees to contribute money or PTO for fellow workers in need. In 2023, the company’s employees donated more than $150,000 to the fund. [ 6 ]
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a global humanitarian aid, relief, and development nongovernmental organization. [3] Founded in 1933 as the International Relief Association, at the request of Albert Einstein, and changing its name in 1942 after amalgamating with the similar Emergency Rescue Committee, the IRC provides emergency aid and long-term assistance to refugees and those ...
Catholic Relief Services (CRS) is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States.Founded in 1943 by the Bishops of the United States, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 110 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
CARE is a signatory to the following standards of humanitarian intervention: the Code of Conduct for The International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, [45] the Sphere standards, [46] and the Core Humanitarian Standard [47] As well, CARE is a member of a number of networks aiming to improve the quality and ...
Global Refuge, formerly known as Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, [2] is a non-profit organization that supports refugees and migrants entering the United States. It is one of nine refugee resettlement agencies working with the Office of Refugee Resettlement [3] and one of two that serves unaccompanied refugee minors. [4]
It is an independent sister organization to the UK charity Comic Relief and is not connected to the former American charity Comic Relief USA. [2] Comic Relief, Inc. is notable for the 2015 US launch of Red Nose Day, a telethon hosted by NBC based closely on the UK event of the same name. [3]
Customer Protection and End User Relief Act; Long title: To reauthorize the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to better protect futures customers, to provide end users with market certainty, to make basic reforms to ensure transparency and accountability at the Commission, to help farmers, ranchers, and end users manage risks to help keep consumer costs low, and for other purposes.