Department of Labor federal obligations in Louisiana

A thin Labor file on Louisiana

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Louisiana as place-of-performance: 152 records summing to $865,568,921.09. A Department of Labor award coded outside LA is out. An award in Louisiana from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A Gulfport-coded award is Mississippi even if the Gulf story sounds similar.

One hundred fifty-two awards against $865,568,921.09 is a thin Labor book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 152 as 152 unique job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. The overlay Department of Labor in Louisiana is the both-keys table. Louisiana federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without an LA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport share one LA stamp. ETA, OSHA, and other Labor components can share awarding-agency 1601 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Louisiana did not cause $865,568,921.09 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × LA only.

152 actions are not 152 job centers

$865,568,921.09 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 LA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 152 awards as a census of job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Louisiana federal spending or Department of Labor matched $865,568,921.09 and 152, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Labor joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $865,568,921.09 by 152 yields about $5,694,532.38 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Labor line and not a published median.

Louisiana, not a Gulf Labor rollup

Place of performance LA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Louisiana (LA) excludes Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi. A Gulfport-coded award is Mississippi even if the Gulf story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport share one LA stamp. This packet does not split $865,568,921.09 by city, county, or named facility. 152 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. $865,568,921.09 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Louisiana confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Louisiana's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 152-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 $865,568,921.09.

What this pair does not prove

A large Labor total in Louisiana does not mean the agency caused Louisiana's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $865,568,921.09 labeled as agency 1601 obligations with Louisiana place of performance. Neighbor Labor cells among Texas, Arkansas, and Mississippi are separate joins. This page does not rank Louisiana as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $865,568,921.09. Place-of-performance LA can differ from a vendor mailroom. A Gulfport-coded award is Mississippi even if the Gulf story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $865,568,921.09 and 152 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 1601 crossed with Louisiana.

Citing Labor in Louisiana

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $865,568,921.09 on 152 awards coded to Louisiana. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions.

Prefer Department of Labor in Louisiana if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Louisiana federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to LA. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the LA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $865,568,921.09.

A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Louisiana, $865,568,921.09, and 152. The implied mean near $5,694,532.38 is $865,568,921.09 divided by 152. 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 Louisiana?

USAspending.gov records $865,568,921.09 across 152 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Louisiana 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 Louisiana is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $865,568,921.09.

Is $865,568,921.09 a measure of job-training centers?

No. The packet publishes $865,568,921.09 and 152 awards for agency 1601 inside LA 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 $5,694,532.38, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a New Orleans-only Labor total?

No. $865,568,921.09 and 152 awards are statewide Louisiana place of performance. New Orleans, Baton Rouge, and Shreveport share one LA 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–Louisiana table?

Department of Labor in Louisiana is the overlay. Louisiana 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 $865,568,921.09. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.