• FY 2017 Commerce/Justice/Science appropriations - funding for self-employment training, hard to hire initiatives, apprenticeships; FY 2017 Labor/HHS/Education appropriations - funding for homeless workforce initiatives, on the job training, BLS study, apprenticeships; FY 2017 Transportation/HUD appropriations - homeless workforce initiatives

Duration: July 1, 2014 to October 1, 2016

General Issues: Budget/Appropriations, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace, Economics/Economic Development, Education, Science/Technology, Health Issues, Accounting, Veterans

Spending: about $190,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2014: House of Representatives, U.S. Senate, Economic Development Administration, Labor - Dept of (DOL), Health & Human Services - Dept of (HHS), Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Housing & Urban Development - Dept of (HUD), Commerce - Dept of (DOC)