Femi

Weekday, morning drive-time, live news program for engaged listeners (ongoing)

GOOD WEEK/BAD WEEK: Our regulary segment with The Week Magazine. We reflect on the past seven days to see who had a good week and who didn’t. We’ll take your nominees anytime. CONGRESS TAKEOUT: Lawmakers, labor leaders, and President Obama were on Capitol Hill last nigth saying significant progress has been made towards a final […]

The Takeaway’s Femi Oke joined a networking club to meet job hunters who’ve decided they need to spend some money to land their next job.

WASHINGTON TAKEOUT: Julie Mason, White House correspondent for The Washington Examiner, discusses the security aspects of some high profile party crashers who snuck past the Secret Service and into the big tent of the White House’s state dinner Tuesday night. FINANCIAL TAKEOUT: The New York Times’ Louise Story discusses the tremors in world financial markets […]

The latest unemployment numbers are out, and buried in those data are startling numbers of older workers who are being hit hard by the rise in unemployment. We talk with The New York Times’ Louise Story and correspondent Femi Oke.