Department of Labor federal obligations in Tennessee

A thin Labor file on Tennessee

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Tennessee as place-of-performance: 139 records summing to $837,073,695.27. A Department of Labor award coded outside TN is out. An award in Tennessee from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Tennessee (TN) excludes Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri. A West Memphis-coded award is Arkansas even if the river story sounds similar.

One hundred thirty-nine awards against $837,073,695.27 is a thin Labor book. The implied mean is large and is not a typical project size. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 139 as 139 unique job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. The overlay Department of Labor in Tennessee is the both-keys table. Tennessee federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without an TN filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville share one TN stamp. ETA, OSHA, and other Labor components can share awarding-agency 1601 without a published bureau pie. Correlation is not causation: Tennessee did not cause $837,073,695.27 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × TN only.

139 actions are not 139 job centers

$837,073,695.27 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 TN place-of-performance tag.

Do not treat 139 awards as a census of job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Tennessee federal spending or Department of Labor matched $837,073,695.27 and 139, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Neighbor-state Labor joins are other pairs, not addends. Dividing $837,073,695.27 by 139 yields about $6,022,112.92 per award on average. That average hides contracts, grants, and other instruments. It is not a typical Labor line and not a published median.

Tennessee, not a Tennessee Valley Labor rollup

Place of performance TN is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Tennessee (TN) excludes Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri. A West Memphis-coded award is Arkansas even if the river story sounds similar. Recipient address can differ from that state tag.

Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville share one TN stamp. This packet does not split $837,073,695.27 by city, county, or named facility. 139 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. $837,073,695.27 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Tennessee confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Tennessee's own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 139-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 $837,073,695.27.

What this pair does not prove

A large Labor total in Tennessee does not mean the agency caused Tennessee's fiscal mix, and it does not connect these obligations to campaign contributions. Keep $837,073,695.27 labeled as agency 1601 obligations with Tennessee place of performance. Neighbor Labor cells among Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, and Missouri are separate joins. This page does not rank Tennessee as a winner or loser.

Recipient names are unpublished in this packet. Do not invent contractors or award recipients to explain $837,073,695.27. Place-of-performance TN can differ from a vendor mailroom. A West Memphis-coded award is Arkansas even if the river story sounds similar. A later ingest can restate $837,073,695.27 and 139 without changing the join definition: awarding agency 1601 crossed with Tennessee.

Citing Labor in Tennessee

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $837,073,695.27 on 139 awards coded to Tennessee. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as job-training centers, unemployment offices, or unique unions.

Prefer Department of Labor in Tennessee if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Tennessee federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to TN. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the TN filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $837,073,695.27.

A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Tennessee, $837,073,695.27, and 139. The implied mean near $6,022,112.92 is $837,073,695.27 divided by 139. 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 Tennessee?

USAspending.gov records $837,073,695.27 across 139 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Tennessee 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 Tennessee is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $837,073,695.27.

Is $837,073,695.27 a measure of job-training centers?

No. The packet publishes $837,073,695.27 and 139 awards for agency 1601 inside TN 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 $6,022,112.92, a ratio of two packet facts.

Is this a Nashville-only Labor total?

No. $837,073,695.27 and 139 awards are statewide Tennessee place of performance. Nashville, Memphis, and Knoxville share one TN 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–Tennessee table?

Department of Labor in Tennessee is the overlay. Tennessee 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 $837,073,695.27. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.