Department of Labor federal obligations in Colorado

A thin Labor file on Colorado

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Colorado as place-of-performance: 181 records summing to $811,855,797.54. A Department of Labor award coded outside CO is out. An award in Colorado from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming even if the Front Range story sounds similar.

One hundred eighty-one awards against $811,855,797.54 is a thin Labor book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 181 as 181 unique job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. The overlay Department of Labor in Colorado is the both-keys table. Colorado federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without an CO filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins share one CO stamp. ETA, OSHA, and other Labor components can share awarding-agency 1601 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Colorado did not cause $811,855,797.54 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × CO only.

181 actions are not 181 job centers

$811,855,797.54 does not measure job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and an CO place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 181 awards as a census of job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Colorado federal spending or Department of Labor matched $811,855,797.54 and 181, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Labor joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $811,855,797.54 by 181 yields about $4,485,391.15 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Labor line and not a published median.

Colorado, not a Front Range Labor rollup

Place of performance CO is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Colorado (CO) excludes Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming even if the Front Range story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins share one CO stamp. This packet does not split $811,855,797.54 by city, county, or named facility. 181 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few Labor rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $811,855,797.54 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Colorado confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Colorado's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 181-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 $811,855,797.54.

What this pair does not prove

A large Labor total in Colorado does not mean the agency caused Colorado's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $811,855,797.54 labeled as agency 1601 obligations with Colorado place of performance. Neighbor Labor cells among Wyoming, Utah, New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Arizona are separate joins. This page does not rank Colorado as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $811,855,797.54. Place-of-performance CO can differ from a vendor mailroom. A Cheyenne-coded award is Wyoming even if the Front Range story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $811,855,797.54 and 181 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 1601 crossed with Colorado.

Citing Labor in Colorado

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $811,855,797.54 on 181 awards coded to Colorado. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions.

Prefer Department of Labor in Colorado if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Colorado federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to CO. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the CO filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $811,855,797.54.

A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Colorado, $811,855,797.54, and 181. The implied mean near $4,485,391.15 is $811,855,797.54 divided by 181. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system. FEC individual contributions are a different dataset; they do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Colorado?

USAspending.gov records $811,855,797.54 across 181 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Colorado tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. Department of Labor in Colorado is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $811,855,797.54.

Is $811,855,797.54 a measure of job-training centers?

No. The packet publishes $811,855,797.54 and 181 awards for agency 1601 inside CO coding. Those other series are unpublished here. Unique recipients are unpublished. Quote the dollar total and the award count together. Obligations are not outlays. The implied mean is about $4,485,391.15, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Denver-only Labor total?

No. $811,855,797.54 and 181 awards are statewide Colorado place of performance. Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins share one CO stamp. This packet does not publish a city split. A regional cut would be a different extract. Original filings remain on the source sites.

Where is the live Labor–Colorado table?

Department of Labor in Colorado is the overlay. Colorado 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 $811,855,797.54. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.