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Department of Labor obligations in California 33rd District (CA-33)

Place-of-performance CA-33 crossed with Department of Labor (agency 1601) yields $154,467,449.38 in USAspending.gov obligations on 3 awards. Three Labor-coded awards carry about eleven percent of CA-33’s district obligation total. That is a thin file with a very large implied mean, not a job-training caseload. That pair is Department of Labor and California 33rd District (CA-33) — not California’s entire federal inflow, not Department of Labor nationwide, and not cash already paid. The cell is 11.4% of this district’s published obligation total ($1,354,460,689.92). Implied average obligation is about $51,489,149.79 ($154,467,449.38 ÷ 3). Correlation is not causation.

Key figures

  • Labor in California 33rd District (CA-33): $154,467,449.38 across 3 USAspending awards.
  • Implied mean about $51,489,149.79 per record; district share 11.4% of $1,354,460,689.92.
  • Agency 1601 × CA-33 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a named-recipient list.
  • Cite USAspending.gov; quote California 33rd District and Department of Labor if live tables moved.
  • California federal spending and All spending ties are parents and an index, not amounts to add into $154,467,449.38.

The California 33rd District (CA-33) filter on Labor

Awarding agency 1601 and congressional district CA-33 meet here. $154,467,449.38 is the USAspending.gov obligation sum on awards that carry both tags. It is not Department of Labor’s nationwide total, not every federal dollar coded to California 33rd District (CA-33), and not an outlay register. The packet does not split Labor agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. 3 is an action count: modifications and repeat awards add rows. Unique recipients are unpublished. It is not a job-training caseload, an unemployment-claim count, or a named-grantee file.

Dividing $154,467,449.38 by 3 yields about $51,489,149.79 per award on average. That ratio is two packet facts. It is not a typical contract, grant, or benefit line. Three awards against a one-hundred-fifty-four-million-dollar Labor cell is an extreme concentration of rows. Do not invent three named grantees; the packet does not publish recipient identity. Do not treat CA-33’s 1601 cell as a synonym for every Labor account nationwide. Open California 33rd District for the district table without this agency filter, Department of Labor for agency 1601 without the CA-33 filter, California federal spending for every awarding agency in the California extract, and All spending ties for the rest of the join list. Quote those hubs as parents, not as addends to $154,467,449.38.

The Department of Labor awarding-agency rollup

USAspending labels awarding agency 1601 as Department of Labor. That code produced $154,467,449.38 when crossed with California 33rd District (CA-33) place of performance. The agency-wide 1601 hub does not require CA-33 geography. The district hub does not require Labor. Only this tie applies both filters, which is why it cites 3 awards. The packet does not split Labor agencies or contract versus assistance instruments.

Correlation is not causation: California 33rd District (CA-33) did not “cause” $154,467,449.38 by existing as a large or small place. Population, outcome scores, and named facilities are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × CA-33 only. It is not a job-training caseload, an unemployment-claim count, or a named-grantee file. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to fill the gap. Campaign donations on FEC tables do not fund this USAspending cell; the datasets are separate.

Reading the CA-33 stamp

California 33rd District (CA-33) on this join is a USAspending geography field, not a claim that every dollar was disbursed to residents of that district. Awards can list CA-33 while later work occurs elsewhere. Awards tagged to other California districts belong on those ties even when the awarding agency is also 1601. California 33rd District (CA-33) is a numbered congressional place-of-performance code inside California. Other California districts are separate joins even when they reuse awarding-agency 1601. California 33rd District (CA-33) is not California 37th District. Same awarding-agency code 1601, different place-of-performance stamp, different dollar total.

California federal spending shows how agency 1601 sits beside other awarding agencies in the same state extract. $154,467,449.38 is one district-agency column, not the state table. This packet does not split California 33rd District (CA-33) by county, city, or census tract. Awards that carry a different awarding-agency code stay on those other ties even if the work sounds related to Department of Labor. The district-wide obligation total published here is $1,354,460,689.92; $154,467,449.38 is the Labor slice of that denominator.

USAspending obligations on this pair

USAspending.gov records an obligation when the federal government commits funds on an award. $154,467,449.38 is that kind of sum for Department of Labor inside CA-33 coding. Later deobligations, recoveries, or payment schedules can change what leaves the Treasury without this join rewriting itself into a cash register. Assistance and contract awards can share the same awarding-agency rollup; this packet does not split them. Net obligations can include downward adjustments. This page reports $154,467,449.38 as given.

California’s own budget is a separate ledger. Mixing it with the 3-row Labor cell leaves USAspending.gov. Treat 3 as award records in the aggregate, not unique vendors. Do not annualize without a year field in the packet. Do not per-capita or per-recipient the dollar total; those denominators are unpublished. The implied mean ($51,489,149.79) is a concentration statistic, not a typical CA-33 Labor payment.

Citing $154,467,449.38 without dropping a join side

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $154,467,449.38 on 3 awards coded to California 33rd District (CA-33). Name Department of Labor and California 33rd District (CA-33) together. Keep the obligation word. If California 33rd District or Department of Labor has refreshed, prefer the live hub over this snapshot for current rows. The pair is not a job-training caseload, an unemployment-claim count, or a named-grantee file. 11.4% of $1,354,460,689.92 is the district share on this packet, not a performance score.

Row count versus dollar concentration

Three awards against a one-hundred-fifty-four-million-dollar Labor cell is an extreme concentration of rows. Do not invent three named grantees; the packet does not publish recipient identity. A large row count makes a program split tempting; the packet still does not supply one. A small row count makes a named-facility story tempting; the packet still does not name facilities or contractors. The implied mean (about $51,489,149.79) and the district share (11.4% of $1,354,460,689.92) are ratios of packet facts. Prefer California 33rd District and Department of Labor if the live tables moved.

Questions

How much Labor spending is coded to California 33rd District (CA-33)?
USAspending.gov lists $154,467,449.38 in Department of Labor obligations across 3 awards with place of performance in California 33rd District (CA-33). Agency 1601 × CA-33 is an obligation join, not an outlay and not California’s complete federal ledger. The cell is 11.4% of the district’s published total ($1,354,460,689.92). Unique recipients are unpublished. Average obligation is about $51,489,149.79, a ratio of those two facts only.
Does $154,467,449.38 include every Labor program in CA-33?
The packet publishes one awarding-agency rollup. The packet does not split Labor agencies or contract versus assistance instruments. $154,467,449.38 is the combined obligation sum for agency 1601 inside CA-33 coding. This page will not invent a program pie or name contractors. Open Department of Labor and California 33rd District to inspect parent tables. 3 remains an action count, not a program count.
Is $154,467,449.38 cash already paid in California 33rd District (CA-33)?
No. Obligations are commitments recorded on USAspending.gov awards. Outlays — money that actually left the Treasury — are a different concept and are not this packet’s headline. Treating $154,467,449.38 as checks already cleared in California 33rd District (CA-33) confuses those terms. Later ingests can revise 3 awards. Prefer the live district and agency hubs if the tables moved.
Why is the implied average $51,489,149.79 not a typical award?
The average is $154,467,449.38 divided by 3 awards, about $51,489,149.79. Thick files pull the mean down; thin files pull it up. Neither case publishes a typical instrument. Modifications add rows. Recipients are unpublished. Use the ratio only as a concentration statistic.

USAspending.gov congressional district place-of-performance joined to awarding agency. District 90/98 (multi/non-voting placeholders) are omitted. Obligations are not outlays.