WIOA Youth Activities — CFDA 17.259

What $8.60 billion on 269 awards means

Assistance listing 17.259 is titled WIOA YOUTH ACTIVITIES in the USAspending.gov files this site indexes. The obligation total on that code is $8,595,994,918.34. An obligation is a recorded federal commitment on an award. It is not a stipend already paid.

269 awards sit under that dollar book. Dividing $8,595,994,918.34 by 269 produces a mean near $32.0 million per award record. That quotient is derived from the two packet totals. It is not a typical summer-job wage and not a per-participant training cost. Formula dollars often sit on a modest number of large state actions, which is why 269 records can carry $8,595,994,918.34.

59 organizational recipients appear on those rows. 57 states are coded for place of performance. Neither count converts the obligation total into a youth caseload.

59 recipients across 57 states

CFDA 17.259 lists 59 recipients and 57 states against 269 awards. Recipient count is not unique participants. It is how many organizational recipients the assistance extract stores. A state workforce agency can appear on multiple awards; 59 is not a headcount of local boards.

Fifty-seven states is a coded-jurisdiction span, including territories if they appear in the file’s state field. Because 269 awards are few relative to the dollar total, a handful of large state actions can move $8,595,994,918.34 without a matching jump in the 59-recipient count.

Obligations versus workforce outlays

USAspending.gov publishes obligations on assistance awards. The $8,595,994,918.34 figure for CFDA 17.259 can include commitments that will disburse as program years continue. A separate participant-outcomes report or a Treasury outlay table is a different publication. This page does not translate the obligation total into those series.

If a number you expected is missing, the usual cause is a different reporting concept. Start from the obligation definition, then open the 17.259 program page. Do not stretch 269 awards or 59 recipients to cover every youth-workforce dollar tagged under another listing.

What the 17.259 tables omit

The WIOA Youth Activities hub lists award-backed obligations from USAspending.gov. It is not a participant roster, not a job-placement file, and not a ranking of local boards. Series that never appear as assistance awards will not show up in the $8,595,994,918.34.

Place-of-performance on 57 states is a coding field. A statewide grantee coded to one cell can dominate geography while programs sit in many localities. Read the program page before any state split.

How to cite CFDA 17.259

A complete citation is $8,595,994,918.34 in obligations for CFDA 17.259, covering 269 awards, 59 recipients, and 57 states, drawn from USAspending.gov assistance awards on SpendingVault. Name the series as obligations. If the question is geographic reach rather than dollars, lead with 57 states, then the dollar total.

Start with the WIOA Youth Activities program page, then the all-programs index. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A worked reading of the 17.259 extract

Start from the four packet facts on CFDA 17.259: $8,595,994,918.34 in obligations, 269 awards, 59 recipients, and 57 states. The mean near $31.96 million per award is a quotient from those two packet totals, not a typical unit cost and not a household or client rate. If a later USAspending.gov file adds a few large actions, dollars can jump while 59 recipients barely move. If modifications proliferate, 269 can rise while the dollar book stays close to $8,595,994,918.34.

Nothing in the extract splits WIOA YOUTH ACTIVITIES into subaccounts, fiscal years, or outlay versus obligation series beyond the stored totals. Those cuts live in other publications. Treat CFDA 17.259 as an assistance-listing tag on USAspending.gov award files. Open the program page, then the all-programs index, for a same-series ranking. Cite 269 awards and 59 recipients next to the dollars so the record count is visible beside $8,595,994,918.34. Name the series as obligations, not outlays, every time the figure is reused. Agency pages show awarding organizations; they do not replace this listing’s obligation total.

A complete working citation for this listing is $8,595,994,918.34 in USAspending.gov obligations for CFDA 17.259, covering 269 awards, 59 recipients, and 57 states, indexed on SpendingVault. Do not convert 269 awards into participants served, or 59 recipients into a local-board census. The 57-state field is place-of-performance coding in the assistance extract. Read the WIOA YOUTH ACTIVITIES hub before inferring a geographic story from the dollar total alone. If a number you expected is missing from $8,595,994,918.34, the usual cause is a different reporting concept rather than a gap in the 269 award rows.

Questions

How much is obligated under WIOA Youth Activities?

USAspending.gov assistance awards indexed on SpendingVault show $8,595,994,918.34 in obligations for CFDA 17.259. That sum is an obligation total, not a Treasury outlay total and not a participant count. The same extract lists 269 awards, 59 recipients, and 57 states.

Why does CFDA 17.259 have only 59 recipients?

The indexed recipient count is 59 organizational recipients on 269 awards. Formula dollars often sit on a relatively small number of large state actions, which is why $8,595,994,918.34 can coexist with a short recipient list. The 59 figure is a file statistic, not a count of young people. 57 states are coded for place of performance.

Is the $8.60 billion already spent on youth programs?

Not as a cash-paid sum. USAspending reports obligations—commitments to pay—rather than outlays. The $8,595,994,918.34 figure can include amounts that will disburse later. Cite CFDA 17.259 with the obligation total from USAspending.gov assistance awards, not an outlay series. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.

How many states appear on CFDA 17.259?

The extract codes 57 states for WIOA Youth Activities. That count is place-of-performance geography in USAspending.gov assistance files, not a map of every local program. Those rows still sit under the $8,595,994,918.34 obligation total and the 59-recipient count. The program hub on SpendingVault holds the award rows behind those totals. Keep the series labeled as obligations from USAspending.gov assistance awards; do not swap in an outlay figure from another report.