Cardinal Direction
What's really happening in the Mountain State? Cardinal Direction brings you in-depth conversations on the policies affecting West Virginia, from the economy and education to healthcare and infrastructure. Produced by the Cardinal Institute for WV Policy.
Cardinal Direction
Latest Episodes
Vision for a Better Safety Net with Mason Bishop
Getting a job or earning a raise should help a family get ahead. But benefit cliffs and a maze of disconnected programs can make that harder than it should be.In this episode of Cardinal Direction, host Jessi Troyan, Director of Policy a...
Overview of the American Social Safety Net with Angela Rachidi
In the season premiere of Cardinal Direction, host Jessi Troyan sits down with American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Angela Rachidi to examine America’s social safety net and why programs intended to help families can sometimes s...
How to Believe in Both Justice and Policing
In this episode of Cardinal Direction, host Jessica Dobrinsky is joined by Brianna Neufer, Chief Operating Officer at Americans for Public Safety, to unpack one of the most polarized issues in American life: public safety.Briann...
The Conservative Case for Criminal Justice Reform
Host Jessica Dobrinsky sits down with Beverly Sharpe, a former federal prison officer and administrator who spent 30 years inside the corrections system before turning her experience toward reentry and reform through West Virginia’s REACH Initi...
Second Chances: Life After Incarceration
In this episode of Cardinal Direction, host Jessica Dobrinsky sits down with Vikrant Reddy, senior fellow at Stand Together Trust, to explore one of the most consequential and complicated issues in American life: how we punish, how we ...