Department of Labor federal obligations in Arizona

Labor awards tagged to Arizona

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Arizona as place-of-performance: 227 records summing to $1,270,573,067.65. A Department of Labor award coded outside AZ is out. An award in Arizona from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Arizona (AZ) excludes California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. A California-coded award is CA even if a worker commutes.

Two hundred twenty-seven records against $1,270,573,067.65 is a thin, high-mean Labor file: few rows, large dollars. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 227 as 227 unique jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers. The overlay Department of Labor in Arizona is the both-keys table. Arizona federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without an AZ filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Phoenix workforce boards are unpublished. Do not assign 227 awards to a named local area. Correlation is not causation: Arizona did not cause $1,270,573,067.65 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × AZ only.

Unemployment rates are a different series

$1,270,573,067.65 does not measure jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and an AZ place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 227 awards as a census of jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Arizona federal spending or Department of Labor matched $1,270,573,067.65 and 227, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. California, Nevada, and New Mexico Labor joins are other pairs, not addends.

Arizona statewide, not a Phoenix-only map

Place of performance AZ is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Arizona (AZ) excludes California, Nevada, Utah, New Mexico, and Colorado. A California-coded award is CA even if a worker commutes. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Phoenix workforce boards are unpublished. Do not assign 227 awards to a named local area. This packet does not split $1,270,573,067.65 by city, county, or named facility. 227 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Commitments versus wage checks already cut

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,270,573,067.65 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Arizona confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Arizona’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 227-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 $1,270,573,067.65.

Citing Labor in Arizona

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $1,270,573,067.65 on 227 awards coded to Arizona. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers.

Prefer Department of Labor in Arizona if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Arizona federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to AZ. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the AZ filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,270,573,067.65.

A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Arizona, $1,270,573,067.65, and 227. The compact headline $1.27 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $5.60 million is $1,270,573,067.65 divided by 227. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Two hundred twenty-seven records against $1,270,573,067.65 is a thin, high-mean Labor file: few rows, large dollars. On this join the implied mean near $5.60 million should not be treated as a typical award size. Without a distribution, $1,270,573,067.65 can be dominated by a few rows even when 227 is large, or by those same few rows when 227 is small. This page will not pretend to know which pattern holds. It keeps repeating the two facts and the two keys: Department of Labor (1601) and Arizona (AZ). Place of performance still does not mean every dollar was disbursed locally. Obligations still do not mean outlays. Phoenix workforce boards are unpublished. Do not assign 227 awards to a named local area.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Arizona?

USAspending.gov records $1,270,573,067.65 across 227 awards with awarding agency 1601 and an Arizona tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers. Department of Labor in Arizona is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,270,573,067.65.

Is $1,270,573,067.65 a measure of jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers?

No. The packet publishes $1,270,573,067.65 and 227 awards for agency 1601 inside AZ 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 227 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1601 × AZ. Combined with $1,270,573,067.65, the average is about $5.60 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 227 is not unique jobs created, unemployment rates, or unique workers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live table?

Department of Labor in Arizona is the overlay. Arizona 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 $1,270,573,067.65. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.