National School Lunch Program in Louisiana

Louisiana’s NSLP cell

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,938,006,801.06 on 12 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Louisiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,938,006,801.06 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a parish cafeteria map or a free-lunch census.

12 awards is more concentrated than Tennessee’s 20-row NSLP cell, with a higher implied mean of about $244.83 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,938,006,801.06, 12 awards, LA, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twelve NSLP instruments carrying $2,938,006,801.06 is more concentrated than Tennessee’s 20-row lunch cell, which raises the implied mean without ranking meal quality.

Lunch reimbursements are not SNAP benefits

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or summer-food catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,938,006,801.06 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Louisiana, CFDA 10.555, $2,938,006,801.06, 12 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,938,006,801.06 by 12 yields about $244.83 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.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 Louisiana?

USAspending records $2,938,006,801.06 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Louisiana together when citing $2,938,006,801.06. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 people or contractors?

No. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $244.83 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,938,006,801.06 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 Louisiana parishes received lunch funds?

No. $2,938,006,801.06 is only the 10.555 × Louisiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Louisiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × LA pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Louisiana 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–Louisiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.