{"id":89242,"date":"2026-01-17T06:14:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89242\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T06:14:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T06:14:08","slug":"economic-pulse-week-of-1-16-26","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/89242\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Pulse: Week of 1\/16\/26"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2025, year in review<\/p>\n<p>The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5% during the first three quarters of last year. And the unemployment rate rose from 4 in January to 4.4% by December 2025.<br \/>Inflation has been the wild card since the pandemic, driven by massive government transfers to the public. It reached 9% in the summer of 2022, as demand surged at a time when supply chains were nowhere near capable of handling it.<\/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: 1\/16\/26)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2025, year in review The economy grew at an annual rate of 2.5% during the first three quarters&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89243,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-89242","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-allentown","9":"tag-allentown-headlines","10":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89242","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=89242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}