National School Lunch Program in Alabama

Alabama’s NSLP intersection

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Alabama place of performance, obligations sum to $2,707,648,580.28 on 10 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Alabama’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,707,648,580.28 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a county cafeteria map or a free-lunch ranking.

10 awards is among the most concentrated NSLP cells in this slice, with an implied mean of about $270.76 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement, and not a ranking of states as hungrier or better-fed. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,707,648,580.28, 10 awards, AL, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Ten NSLP instruments carrying $2,707,648,580.28 is among the most concentrated lunch cells in this slice, which is a posting pattern, not a hunger ranking.

Lunch funding is not a SNAP cell

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or summer meals. Mixing other catalogs into $2,707,648,580.28 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Alabama, CFDA 10.555, $2,707,648,580.28, 10 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,707,648,580.28 by 10 yields about $270.76 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 10 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Alabama geography on 10.555

AL is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, or Florida stay outside $2,707,648,580.28 even when a student later moves. A statewide lunch award can still appear as records tagged to Montgomery or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,707,648,580.28 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Alabama federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Alabama programs. $2,707,648,580.28 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Alabama for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Alabama filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,707,648,580.28.

Ten awards under $2.71 billion

$2,707,648,580.28 ÷ 10 is about $270.76 million per award. That average is not a median and not a typical household, student, or meal payment. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 10 as a record count. Alabama SSI in this slice is a different catalog; those dollars are not inside the $2,707,648,580.28 lunch cell.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,707,648,580.28 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 10 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,707,648,580.28 without changing the join key of 10.555 and AL.

What school lunch in Alabama does not prove

A 10.555 total tagged to Alabama does not measure program quality, and it does not equal cash already paid. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $2,707,648,580.28 on 10 awards for National School Lunch Program in Alabama.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Alabama, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,707,648,580.28 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 10 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Using the 10.555–Alabama overlay

The overlay target is the Alabama × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Alabama when you want the same $2,707,648,580.28 / 10-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Alabama filter. Alabama federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Alabama programs lists other catalogs beside 10.555. All spending ties indexes other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Alabama won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus AL. Obligations of $2,707,648,580.28 are not outlays.

Questions

How much National School Lunch Program funding is obligated in Alabama?

USAspending records $2,707,648,580.28 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Alabama place of performance on 10 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Alabama together when citing $2,707,648,580.28. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 10 awards mean 10 people or contractors?

No. 10 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $270.76 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,707,648,580.28 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 10 awards mean 10 Alabama school systems?

No. $2,707,648,580.28 is only the 10.555 × Alabama cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Alabama program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Alabama. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × AL pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Alabama as better or worse.

Have these National School Lunch Program dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live National School Lunch Program–Alabama table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.