{"id":132115,"date":"2026-03-07T09:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132115\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T09:15:10","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-3-6-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/132115\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 3\/6\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Employment unexpectedly declined in February.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), payroll employment dropped by 92,000 in February, contradicting the 50,000 expected increase.<br \/>The unemployment rate inched up to 4.4%, little change from January\u2019s 4.3%.<\/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: 3\/6\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Employment unexpectedly declined in February. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), payroll employment dropped by 92,000&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-132115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132115","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=132115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}