{"id":229231,"date":"2026-06-26T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229231\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:08:08","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-6-26-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/229231\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 6\/26\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Sentiment 19% down from last year<\/p>\n<p>The June Consumer Sentiment data showed a 5-point increase from its lowest level ever, 44.8, in May, mostly due to a drop in gasoline prices, particularly among lower-income households, where \u201cgasoline comprises a larger share of their budgets,\u201d according to the University of Michigan. However, even with the June increase, it is 19% below its last year\u2019s level and still below its lowest level during the Great Recession!<\/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\/26\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Sentiment 19% down from last year The June Consumer Sentiment data showed a 5-point increase from its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-229231","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\/229231","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=229231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}