{"id":28044,"date":"2025-11-07T21:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28044\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T21:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T21:02:42","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-11-7-25","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/28044\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 11\/7\/25"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Payroll employment in the Valley topped 400,000<\/p>\n<p>PA Department of Labor and Industry&#8217;s data shows the seasonally adjusted payroll employment in the Lehigh Valley rose to a shade below 403,000 in August 2025, an increase of 6,000 jobs compared to last year. Despite this job growth, the unemployment rate rose to 4.3%, a measurable increase over last year&#8217;s 3.9% and just outside the full-employment range.<\/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: 11\/7\/25)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Payroll employment in the Valley topped 400,000 PA Department of Labor and Industry&#8217;s data shows the seasonally adjusted&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-28044","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\/28044","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=28044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}