National School Lunch Program in Louisiana

Louisiana’s NSLP cell

CFDA 10.555 is titled NATIONAL SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM. Crossed with Louisiana place of performance, obligations sum to $2,938,006,801.06 on 12 awards. The national National School Lunch Program hub includes other states. Louisiana’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $2,938,006,801.06 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a parish cafeteria map or a free-lunch census.

12 awards is more concentrated than Tennessee’s 20-row NSLP cell, with a higher implied mean of about $244.83 million per award. That mean is a state-agency scale, not a typical per-meal reimbursement. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $2,938,006,801.06, 12 awards, LA, and 10.555. Correlation is not causation. Twelve NSLP instruments carrying $2,938,006,801.06 is more concentrated than Tennessee’s 20-row lunch cell, which raises the implied mean without ranking meal quality.

Lunch reimbursements are not SNAP benefits

The catalog title names National School Lunch Program. It is not SNAP, WIC, or summer-food catalogs. Mixing other catalogs into $2,938,006,801.06 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Louisiana, CFDA 10.555, $2,938,006,801.06, 12 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $2,938,006,801.06 by 12 yields about $244.83 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Louisiana as place of performance

LA is the place-of-performance code. Awards coded to Texas, Mississippi, or Arkansas stay outside $2,938,006,801.06 even when a student later moves. A statewide lunch award can still appear as records tagged to Baton Rouge or another in-state address. The code does not convert $2,938,006,801.06 into a county map or a ranking of places as winners or losers.

Louisiana federal spending is the all-program parent. 10.555 is one row on Louisiana programs. $2,938,006,801.06 is not the state’s complete federal footprint. Open National School Lunch Program in Louisiana for the filtered table, CFDA 10.555 for 10.555 without a Louisiana filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $2,938,006,801.06.

Twelve awards under $2.94 billion

$2,938,006,801.06 ÷ 12 is about $244.83 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 12 as a record count. Louisiana SSI in this slice is a different catalog; those dollars are not inside the $2,938,006,801.06 lunch cell.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $2,938,006,801.06 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register, you cannot see how many of the 12 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $2,938,006,801.06 without changing the join key of 10.555 and LA.

What school lunch in Louisiana does not prove

A 10.555 total tagged to Louisiana 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 $2,938,006,801.06 on 12 awards for National School Lunch Program in Louisiana.

Keep both sides of the join: National School Lunch Program and Louisiana, obligations only. Do not annualize $2,938,006,801.06 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 12 as a person or contractor census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a policy story.

Using the 10.555–Louisiana overlay

The overlay target is the Louisiana × CFDA 10.555 table. Open National School Lunch Program in Louisiana when you want the same $2,938,006,801.06 / 12-award cell in the site’s data chrome. CFDA 10.555 drops the Louisiana filter. Louisiana federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Louisiana 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 Louisiana won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 10.555 plus LA. Obligations of $2,938,006,801.06 are not outlays.

Questions

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

USAspending records $2,938,006,801.06 in CFDA 10.555 obligations with Louisiana place of performance on 12 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep National School Lunch Program and Louisiana together when citing $2,938,006,801.06. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 people or contractors?

No. 12 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $244.83 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $2,938,006,801.06 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 12 awards mean 12 Louisiana parishes received lunch funds?

No. $2,938,006,801.06 is only the 10.555 × Louisiana cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Louisiana program pages. Nationwide 10.555 is not limited to Louisiana. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 10.555 × LA pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Louisiana 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–Louisiana table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.