National School Lunch Program in Alabama

Alabama’s NSLP intersection

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Alabama place of performance, obligations sum to $2,707,648,580.28 on 10 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Alabama’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,707,648,580.28 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a county cafeteria map or a free-lunch ranking.

10 awards is among the most concentrated NSLP cells in this slice, with an implied mean of about $270.76 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement, and not a ranking of states as hungrier or better-fed. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,707,648,580.28, 10 awards, AL, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Ten NSLP instruments carrying $2,707,648,580.28 is among the most concentrated lunch cells in this slice, which is a posting pattern, not a hunger ranking.

Lunch funding is not a SNAP cell

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or summer meals. Mixing other catalogs into $2,707,648,580.28 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alabama, CFDA 10.555, $2,707,648,580.28, 10 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,707,648,580.28 by 10 yields about $270.76 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 10 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $2,707,648,580.28 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 10 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Alabama together when citing $2,707,648,580.28. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 10 awards mean 10 people or contractors?

No. 10 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $270.76 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,707,648,580.28 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Alabama school systems?

No. $2,707,648,580.28 is only the 10.555 × Alabama cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Alabama. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × AL pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Alabama as better or worse.

Have these National School Lunch Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live National School Lunch Program–Alabama table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.