{"id":137589,"date":"2026-03-13T18:17:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137589\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:17:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:17:24","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-3-13-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/137589\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 3\/13\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gasoline prices are on the rise.<\/p>\n<p>As of this taping, GasBuddy reports that the lowest price for regular gas in the Valley has risen to $3.29 per gallon, still below the national average of $3.63. Gas prices have gradually dropped from a high of $4.93 in June 2022 to a low of $2.81 in January of this year. They rose slightly in February; however, they are spiking high in the first days of March.<\/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\/13\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gasoline prices are on the rise. As of this taping, GasBuddy reports that the lowest price for regular&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":137590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-137589","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\/137589","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=137589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}