Central to the U.S. pension problem is the fact that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, charged with protection of investors in the securities markets, has seldom provided advice specifically for protection of participants in pensions and the U.S. Department of Labor lacks sufficient understanding of the securities and asset management industries to provide guidance to sponsors of and participants in pensions.
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The Department of Trade and Industry deals with most other industries, so why not farming and fishing too?
The Department of Commerce study showed that employment in copyright-intensive industries grew 46.3 percent between 1990 and 2011.
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Corporate plans: The Department of Labor, the agency charged with regulating corporate pensions, generally lacks knowledge of the money management and securities industries, has offered little meaningful guidance to corporate sponsors on these issues and has been even less effective in investigating wrongdoing and enforcing the laws.
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Industries often set international standards for testing and measurement, but the Department of Energy (DoE), flush with cash, seems intent on hiring consultants to create new and redundant test procedures.
At present Micron Technology (nyse: MU - news - people ) and other producers of dynamic random access memory chips for computers--one of the most competitive industries on the planet--are confronted with charges from the Justice Department that imply all three pricing offenses at once.
Our fourth objective is to work with the interagency task force to align workforce programs funded by the Department of Labor and the Department of Education with market demands to help the task force identify and develop stackable credentials in high-demand industries, and to increase the use of technology to improve training.
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The department said the new index has been been developed using data from existing quarterly indices of the production, services and construction industries.
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