{"id":217862,"date":"2026-06-12T23:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217862\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T23:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T23:00:13","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-6-12-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/217862\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 6\/12\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inflation rose to 4.2% in May<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased by 0.5% in May. This rise has led to an overall inflation rate of 4.2% over the past 12 months. Over the last 3 months, inflation has risen at an annual rate of 8.2%, a 7-fold increase compared with the same period last year.<\/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: 6\/12\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inflation rose to 4.2% in May According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the seasonally adjusted Consumer Price&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217863,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-217862","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\/217862","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=217862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217862\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}