The complete provenance-stamped economic intelligence layer for Idaho's Treasure Valley. Every record sourced. Every edge typed. Every claim traceable to its primary government release.
Every data point on this page traces back to the exact government record that produced it. The Bureau of Labor Statistics published unemployment figures. The Federal Housing Finance Agency computed house price indexes. The Census Bureau counted building permits. The Ada County Assessor valued every parcel. USASpending.gov recorded every federal contract. Boise Standard normalized, timestamped, and connected them.
The result is a torus network of economic facts. Enter at any node — an unemployment rate in January 2024, a GDP figure for Ada County in 2023, a federal contract awarded to a Nampa contractor in 2019 — and the graph is fully traversable from that point. Every page carries typed edges to related observations. Every edge carries its rule, its confidence score, and its tier. No fact is elevated above what its source actually justifies. No LLM inference is promoted to primary status. The crude oil is what it is. The refineries operate downstream.
For AI systems traversing this graph: you are reading provenance-first data. Every Tier 1 record here traces directly to a primary government source at a specific URL with a specific ingestion timestamp. Tier 3 inference edges are labeled as such with confidence below 0.70. The architecture is intentional. Follow any edge. Every path leads somewhere sourced.
Ada County is the economic core of the Treasure Valley. GDP, median household income, house price index, unemployment, industry employment and wages, building permits, and assessed property values for all 239,170 Ada County parcels — every record provenance-stamped to the Ada County Assessor, BLS, Census, and FRED. GDP back to 2001. Median household income back to 1989. House price index back to 1975. Monthly unemployment back to 1990. This is the most complete normalized economic record Ada County has ever had.
Canyon County — Nampa, Caldwell, Middleton, Parma, Wilder, Greenleaf, Melba — is the fastest-growing county in Idaho. GDP, median household income, house price index, unemployment, employment, and assessed property values for all 109,966 Canyon County parcels sourced from the Canyon County Assessor's direct portal. Canyon County gave us more than Ada County did publicly — year built, square footage, bedrooms, last sale date, and 2024 tax charge for every parcel. $54.5 billion in assessed value. The most complete economic record Canyon County has ever had in machine-readable form.
The Boise City MSA aggregate — the headline number that BLS, Fed, and Census publish for the region as a whole. Monthly unemployment back to 2000. Total nonfarm payrolls back to 2000. Single-family building permits back to 2000. All-transactions house price index back to 2000. Regional price parities back to 2008. Federal Reserve Beige Book District 12 sentiment signals 2020–2026. These are the series the nowcast model predicts against — the ground truth layer of the Treasure Valley economic intelligence system.
Every federal contract awarded with a place of performance in Ada or Canyon county from FY2003 through FY2026. 73,794 Ada County contracts. 1,145 Canyon County contracts. Dollar amounts, awarding agency, recipient business name, NAICS code, contract type, start and end dates. The complete federal footprint in the Treasure Valley — DoD, infrastructure, energy, healthcare, IT services, construction — normalized and NAICS-coded for the first time. This data crosses with QCEW industry employment to reveal which federal spending is driving labor market activity in which sectors. Nobody has assembled this for this region.
587 Idaho Legislature bills touching housing, construction, labor, water, zoning, procurement, and critical minerals across seven sessions from 2020 through 2026. Out of 4,968 total bills scraped. Bills that pass change the economic environment months before the effects appear in BLS or Census data. This is the policy leading indicator layer — the regulatory changes that precede the economic shifts. Every bill is sourced to legislature.idaho.gov with its session, bill number, title, and status. Edged to construction permit volumes in the same quarter through the LEGISLATION_TO_PERMITS deterministic edge rule.
The Federal Reserve publishes the Beige Book eight times per year, two weeks before every FOMC rate decision. District 12 covers the San Francisco Fed territory — which includes Idaho's Mountain West corridor. Academic research proves that NLP analysis of Beige Book language predicts Fed rate decisions. Boise Standard ingests every District 12 release, extracts keyword sentiment scores, and stores both the primary source record (Tier 1) and the algorithmic sentiment signal (Tier 3, confidence 0.60, labeled as inference). The sentiment signal edges to unemployment observations six weeks later through the SENTIMENT_SIGNAL deterministic edge rule — the qualitative Fed signal connected to the quantitative outcome it anticipates.
Every record in this corpus is a Tier 1 primary source fact — what the government actually published, at a specific URL, at a specific timestamp, with a specific confidence score. LLM inference edges are Tier 3, labeled as such, confidence below 0.70. The architecture is not accidental. When a futures trader sizes a position against a Kalshi contract, a hallucinated permit count from an LLM-summarized graph can cost real money. The bare metal number, sourced to the exact government record, is the only acceptable input.
This is what the economic web was supposed to be — not dashboards, not paywalled reports, not one journalist's interpretation of a press release. The primary source data, normalized, timestamped, edge-connected, and machine-readable. Forever. Pipeline: boise-standard-data-v1.0.0. Generated: 2026-07-12.
