{"id":274256,"date":"2026-08-28T23:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274256\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T23:24:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T23:24:52","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-8-28-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/274256\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 8\/28\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer Sentiment down 11%<\/p>\n<p>The August Consumer Sentiment data showed an 11% drop from last year. Slight improvement over May\u2019s index, which was at its lowest level since the index\u2019s inception in 1952, according to the University of Michigan.<\/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: 8\/28\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Consumer Sentiment down 11% The August Consumer Sentiment data showed an 11% drop from last year. Slight improvement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274257,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":["post-274256","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\/274256","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=274256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}