Department of Labor in Arkansas
Federal obligations from Department of Labor to Arkansas
Total obligated
$505.0M
Awards
136
USAspending.gov records $410,939,592.88 in Department of Labor obligations tagged to Arkansas on 126 awards. The join is awarding-agency 1601 × place-of-performance AR. 126 awards against $410,939,592.88 is a 126-award labor file on 1601, similar in row count to Kansas’s Labor join. Dividing the two packet facts yields about $3,261,425.34 as an implied mean, not a median and not a typical invoice. Amounts are obligations, not outlays. No fiscal year is published in this packet.
Key figures
- Department of Labor obligated $410,939,592.88 in Arkansas across 126 awards (USAspending.gov).
- The pair is awarding-agency 1601 × place-of-performance AR.
- Amounts are obligations, not outlays; no fiscal year is in this packet.
- The implied mean near $3,261,425.34 is $410,939,592.88 divided by 126, not a typical award.
- The join does not name contractors and does not measure wage-and-hour cases, named job centers, or UI recipient censuses.
Awarding-agency 1601 meeting Arkansas
Filter awarding agency to Department of Labor (1601) and geography to Arkansas (AR) and the USAspending aggregate returns 126 awards totaling $410,939,592.88. Drop either key and you leave this cell. Arkansas (AR) excludes Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma. A Fort Smith-coded award with an Oklahoma place-of-performance tag is a different cell.
Read 126 as an award-record count, not a census of wage-and-hour cases, named job centers, or UI recipient censuses. 126 awards against $410,939,592.88 is a 126-award labor file on 1601, similar in row count to Kansas’s Labor join. Unique recipients are unpublished. Department of Labor in Arkansas keeps both filters on. Arkansas federal spending is every awarding agency tagged to AR. Department of Labor is Department of Labor without the Arkansas filter. All spending ties indexes other spending ties.
Code 1601 stays on this overlay. Neighboring-state Labor 1601 joins are other pairs, not pieces of $410,939,592.88. Sharing a map with Department of Labor does not prove Arkansas caused $410,939,592.88. Correlation is not causation. The only keys on this page are awarding-agency 1601 and place-of-performance AR.
A Labor cell is not a claims ledger
$410,939,592.88 does not measure wage-and-hour cases, named job centers, or UI recipient censuses. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and an AR place-of-performance tag.
Do not treat 126 awards as a census of wage-and-hour cases, named job centers, or UI recipient censuses. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Arkansas federal spending or Department of Labor matched $410,939,592.88 and 126, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighboring-state Labor 1601 joins are other pairs, not addends.
Full analysis: Department of Labor federal obligations in Arkansas →
Questions
- How much has Department of Labor obligated in Arkansas?
- USAspending.gov records $410,939,592.88 across 126 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Arkansas tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not Arkansas’s full federal book. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov. The join is a catalog intersection, not a budget.
- Do 126 Labor awards mean 126 Arkansas job centers?
- No. $410,939,592.88 is an obligation sum on awarding-agency 1601 × AR. It does not measure wage-and-hour cases, named job centers, or UI recipient censuses. Those series are not fields on this aggregate. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Why does this Labor 1601 file have 126 awards?
- 126 is an award-record count, including possible continuations and modifications. Dividing $410,939,592.88 by 126 yields about $3,261,425.34 as a mean, not a typical project. Unique recipients are unpublished. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.
- Where is the live table for Department of Labor in Arkansas?
- Department of Labor in Arkansas is the overlay for both keys. Arkansas federal spending is the all-agency Arkansas hub. Department of Labor is the agency parent. All spending ties indexes other spending ties. Prefer the overlay when both filters must stay on.
USAspending.gov aggregate of federal obligations by state and awarding agency. Obligations are not outlays.
How this pair fits
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