Department of Justice federal obligations in Vermont

Justice awards tagged to Vermont

Department of Justice as awarding agency, Vermont as place-of-performance: 171 records summing to $98,101,421.40. A Department of Justice award coded outside VT is out. An award in Vermont from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Vermont (VT) excludes New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, and Quebec. A Albany-coded award is NY even if a task force sits on the Vermont side. Awarding agency 015 can mix formula grants and other instruments. The packet does not name the mix.

One hundred seventy-one records against $98,101,421.40 is a thin Justice file, closer to a North Dakota cell than to a high-volume assistance flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 171 as 171 unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. The overlay Department of Justice in Vermont is the both-keys table. Vermont federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Justice is the agency book without a VT filter. All spending ties lists other joins. Burlington is unpublished as a metro share. Do not treat 171 as unique Vermont prosecutions. Correlation is not causation: Vermont did not cause $98,101,421.40 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 015 × VT only.

Not a Burlington case list

$98,101,421.40 does not measure unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 015 and a VT place-of-performance tag. Awarding agency 015 can mix formula grants and other instruments. The packet does not name the mix.

Do not treat 171 awards as a census of unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Vermont federal spending or Department of Justice matched $98,101,421.40 and 171, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts Justice joins are other pairs, not addends. Do not add this $98,101,421.40 to a New Hampshire Justice join. They are different ST keys.

Vermont statewide, not a Champlain-only map

Place of performance VT is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Vermont (VT) excludes New Hampshire, New York, Massachusetts, and Quebec. A Albany-coded award is NY even if a task force sits on the Vermont side. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Burlington, Montpelier, Rutland, and the rest of the counties share one VT stamp.

Burlington is unpublished as a metro share. Do not treat 171 as unique Vermont prosecutions. This packet does not split $98,101,421.40 by city, county, or named facility. 171 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract. FEC donation tables do not fund these USAspending obligations.

Commitments ahead of disbursements

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $98,101,421.40 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Vermont confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Vermont’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 171-award USAspending file leaves this series. No fiscal year is published in this packet, so this page does not invent one. Keep the obligation label on $98,101,421.40. Do not add this $98,101,421.40 to a New Hampshire Justice join. They are different ST keys.

Citing Justice in Vermont

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Justice (agency 015) obligated $98,101,421.40 on 171 awards coded to Vermont. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. The pair is Justice plus Vermont, not a statewide court budget.

Prefer Department of Justice in Vermont if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Vermont federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VT. Department of Justice is the 015 parent without the VT filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $98,101,421.40. A usable footnote names Department of Justice, Vermont, $98,101,421.40, and 171. The compact headline $98.1 million is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $573,693 is $98,101,421.40 divided by 171. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Justice obligated in Vermont?

USAspending.gov records $98,101,421.40 across 171 awards with awarding agency 015 and a Vermont tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. Department of Justice in Vermont is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $98,101,421.40.

Is $98,101,421.40 a measure of unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees?

No. The packet publishes $98,101,421.40 and 171 awards for agency 015 inside VT coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. Keep both keys.

Does 171 Justice awards mean 171 Vermont cases?

No. 171 is the award-record count for 015 × VT. Combined with $98,101,421.40, the average is about $573,693. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 171 is not unique prosecutions, named cases, or unique grantees. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Justice–Vermont table?

Department of Justice in Vermont is the overlay. Vermont federal spending and Department of Justice are the parents, not addends. All spending ties lists other pairs. Keep both sides of the join when citing $98,101,421.40. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.