Department of Labor federal obligations in Massachusetts

A thin Labor file on Massachusetts

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Massachusetts as place-of-performance: 239 records summing to $1,537,904,600.89. A Department of Labor award coded outside MA is out. An award in Massachusetts from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Massachusetts (MA) excludes Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. A Providence-coded award is Rhode Island.

Two hundred thirty-nine awards against $1,537,904,600.89 is a thin Labor book, so the implied mean is large. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 239 as 239 unique unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers. The overlay Department of Labor in Massachusetts is the both-keys table. Massachusetts federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without an MA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

This packet uses awarding-agency 1601 as given. Do not treat 239 as a count of Massachusetts career centers. Correlation is not causation: Massachusetts did not cause $1,537,904,600.89 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × MA only.

Not a biotech-payroll or UI census

$1,537,904,600.89 does not measure unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and an MA place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 239 awards as a census of unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Massachusetts federal spending or Department of Labor matched $1,537,904,600.89 and 239, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire Labor joins are other pairs, not addends.

Massachusetts, not a Boston labor-market rollup

Place of performance MA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Massachusetts (MA) excludes Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Vermont, and New York. A Providence-coded award is Rhode Island. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

This packet uses awarding-agency 1601 as given. Do not treat 239 as a count of Massachusetts career centers. This packet does not split $1,537,904,600.89 by city, county, or named facility. 239 awards stay statewide. A county table would be a different extract.

Few rows, still obligations

Even a thick or thin file records obligations, not necessarily outlays. $1,537,904,600.89 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Massachusetts confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Massachusetts’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 239-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 $1,537,904,600.89.

Citing Labor in Massachusetts

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $1,537,904,600.89 on 239 awards coded to Massachusetts. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers.

Prefer Department of Labor in Massachusetts if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Massachusetts federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to MA. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the MA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,537,904,600.89.

A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Massachusetts, $1,537,904,600.89, and 239. The compact headline $1.54 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $6.43 million is $1,537,904,600.89 divided by 239. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Massachusetts?

USAspending.gov records $1,537,904,600.89 across 239 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Massachusetts tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers. Department of Labor in Massachusetts is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $1,537,904,600.89.

Is $1,537,904,600.89 a measure of unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers?

No. The packet publishes $1,537,904,600.89 and 239 awards for agency 1601 inside MA 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 239 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1601 × MA. Combined with $1,537,904,600.89, the average is about $6.43 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 239 is not unique unemployment claimants, OSHA citations, or unique job centers. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Labor–Massachusetts table?

Department of Labor in Massachusetts is the overlay. Massachusetts 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 $1,537,904,600.89. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays. Place of performance is MA.