Department of Labor federal obligations in Virginia

A thin Labor file on a Virginia tag

Department of Labor as awarding agency, Virginia as place-of-performance: 526 records summing to $2,043,392,685.23. A Department of Labor award coded outside VA is out. An award in Virginia from a different awarding agency is out even if the topic sounds related. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A District-coded award is DC even if a workforce office later serves Northern Virginia. ETA, OSHA, and other Labor components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 1601.

Five hundred twenty-six awards against $2,043,392,685.23 is a thin, high-mean file, thicker than Florida Labor in this slice but still far from an SBA-style action flood. Unique recipients are unpublished. Do not read 526 as 526 unique unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites. The overlay Department of Labor in Virginia is the both-keys table. Virginia federal spending is the all-agency state hub. Department of Labor is the agency book without a VA filter. All spending ties lists other joins.

Arlington, Richmond, and Norfolk are unpublished. Do not treat 526 as a list of unique Virginia workers. Correlation is not causation: Virginia did not “cause” $2,043,392,685.23 by existing as a large or small place. Population and outcome scores are not packet facts. The join is 1601 × VA only.

Unemployment claims are a different series

$2,043,392,685.23 does not measure unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites. Those series are not USAspending fields on this aggregate. The cell sums award obligations with awarding-agency code 1601 and a VA place-of-performance tag. ETA, OSHA, and other Labor components are unpublished splits inside awarding agency 1601.

Do not treat 526 awards as a census of unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites. Parent hubs are supposed to be larger than this pair. If Virginia federal spending or Department of Labor matched $2,043,392,685.23 and 526, the join would be pointless. Use the overlay when both keys must stay on. Maryland, District of Columbia, and North Carolina Labor joins are other pairs, not addends.

Virginia statewide, not Northern Virginia versus Richmond

Place of performance VA is a geography tag on the award, not a metro list and not a commuting zone. Virginia (VA) excludes Maryland, District of Columbia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and North Carolina. A District-coded award is DC even if a workforce office later serves Northern Virginia. Recipient address can differ from that state tag. Arlington, Richmond, Norfolk, and the rest of the counties share one VA stamp.

Arlington, Richmond, and Norfolk are unpublished. Do not treat 526 as a list of unique Virginia workers. This packet does not split $2,043,392,685.23 by city, county, or named facility. 526 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. $2,043,392,685.23 can include amounts that pay on a later schedule. Citing it as cash already sent in Virginia confuses two concepts. Deobligations and upward adjustments both move the total.

Virginia’s own budget is a different ledger. Mixing it with the 526-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 $2,043,392,685.23.

Citing Labor in Virginia

Cite USAspending.gov: Department of Labor (agency 1601) obligated $2,043,392,685.23 on 526 awards coded to Virginia. Name both sides. Keep “obligations.” Do not relabel the total as unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites.

Prefer Department of Labor in Virginia if the overlay has refreshed after an ingest. Virginia federal spending still includes every other awarding agency tagged to VA. Department of Labor is the 1601 parent without the VA filter. All spending ties indexes other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,043,392,685.23. A usable footnote names Department of Labor, Virginia, $2,043,392,685.23, and 526. The compact headline $2.04 billion is that same dollar total rounded. It is not a second extract. The implied mean near $3.88 million is $2,043,392,685.23 divided by 526. Means are not medians. USAspending.gov remains the originating system.

Questions

How much has the Department of Labor obligated in Virginia?

USAspending.gov records $2,043,392,685.23 across 526 awards with awarding agency 1601 and a Virginia tag. That is an obligation join, not an outlay and not a count of unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites. Department of Labor in Virginia is the live overlay for this pair. Keep both keys when quoting $2,043,392,685.23.

Is $2,043,392,685.23 a measure of unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites?

No. The packet publishes $2,043,392,685.23 and 526 awards for agency 1601 inside VA 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 526 awards?

That is the award-record count for 1601 × VA. Combined with $2,043,392,685.23, the average is about $3.88 million. Modifications and repeat instruments add rows. 526 is not unique unemployment claims, unique workers, or named Job Corps sites. Later ingests can revise the count. Prefer the overlay if the table moved.

Where is the live Labor–Virginia table?

Department of Labor in Virginia is the overlay. Virginia 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 $2,043,392,685.23. USAspending.gov is the source. Obligations are not outlays.