{"id":126706,"date":"2026-03-01T11:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126706\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T11:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T11:35:13","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-2-27-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/126706\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 2\/27\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation at 2.4% in January<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted consumer price index (CPI) rose by 0.2% in January, resulting in an overall inflation over the last 12 months of 2.4%. A large 7.5% drop in gasoline prices played a significant role in lowering the CPI in January.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/kadac.net\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a> for the latest Lehigh Valley Economic Review.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to Economic Pulse Fridays at 5:44 PM during All Things Considered; Mondays at 7:30 AM during Morning Edition.<\/p>\n<p>(Original air-date: 2\/27\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation at 2.4% in January According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted consumer price index&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126707,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-126706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}