Department of Labor in Washington

A thin Labor file on Washington

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Washington as place-of-performance: 199 records summing to $1,555,656,019.37. A Department of Labor award coded outside WA is out. An award in Washington from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Washington (WA) excludes Oregon, Idaho, and the District of Columbia. An Oregon-coded Labor award is not this cell. This is the state of Washington, not Washington, D.C.

One hundred ninety-nine awards against $1,555,656,019.37 is a thin, high-mean Labor file, slightly thinner than North Carolina’s 221-row Labor cell. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 199 as 199 unique unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats. Department of Labor in Washington is the both-keys table. Washington federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without a WA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Seattle-versus-Spokane folklore is unpublished. Do not treat WA as the District of Columbia. Agency 1601 × WA is the pair. Correlation is not causation: Washington did not cause $1,555,656,019.37 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × WA only. Campaign contributions do not fund these USAspending awards.

199 rows are not 199 unique workers

$1,555,656,019.37 does not measure unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and a WA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 199 awards as a census of unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Washington federal spending or Department of Labor matched $1,555,656,019.37 and 199, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Oregon and Idaho Labor joins are other pairs, not addends.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Washington?

USAspending.gov records $1,555,656,019.37 across 199 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Washington tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats. Department of Labor in Washington is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,555,656,019.37.

Is $1,555,656,019.37 a measure of unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats?

No. The packet publishes $1,555,656,019.37 and 199 awards for agency 1601 inside WA coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays.

Why does this Labor file have 199 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1601 × WA. Combined with $1,555,656,019.37, the average is about $7.82 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 199 is not unique unique workers, UI claims, or job-training seats. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Labor–Washington table?

Department of Labor in Washington is the overlay. Washington federal spending and Department of Labor are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $1,555,656,019.37. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.