In his personal statement that was submitted to the Secretary of State and placed in the official voting guide, Robinson details the pain families are feeling and pushes for free health care.

“We make California rich, but can’t afford rent, medicine or decent schools for our kids because billionaires extract the wealth we create,” Robinson writes.

“Our socialist campaign demands guaranteed housing capped at 20% of income, free healthcare, free childcare and union jobs at minimum $30 per hour with a guaranteed dignified retirement.”

The lines of inequitable health care can be drawn around areas of poverty resulting in millions who cannot afford adequate health coverage.

According to Robinson’s campaign website, he said that health coverage should never depend on your wallet and that he would implement a free universal health care system.

“No fees, no premiums, no deductibles – ever,” Robinson writes on his campaign website. “We will cover everyone and everything – dental, vision, mental health, gender-affirming care, reproductive care and elder care. Everyone’s covered regardless of immigration status.”

Robinson would also “abolish medical debt and make it illegal and build free, high-quality public senior housing with nursing care, so no one faces old age care alone or in poverty.”

“Medical debt is the number one reason for homelessness, right? So when we’re saying we’ll with that tax on the billionaires permanent tax on the billionaires and that we will fund universal health care,” Robinson said on a Cáile Güeyyy Podcast earlier this May.

In California, nearly 22% of households are experiencing some form of food insecurity, according to the California Association of Food Banks.

“In a state with over a trillion dollar economy, no one should go hungry,” Robison said in a speech on May 16 in Oakland.

This is at a time when the Trump administration is cutting SNAP food assistance across the country and here in California, where CalFresh is imposing stricter guidelines for qualifications.

Robinson notes that decades of negative policies have led Black households, who make up 30% of the homelessness population despite making up only 7% of the total state population, need to come to an end, and supports reparations.

“There’s a reason that we have one-tenth the household wealth as our white counterparts, and that is because of centuries of unpaid labor, centuries of slavery,” Robinson said in a speech on May 16 in Oakland. “So the first thing we are going to do for economic empowerment is reparations and direct cash reparations.”

Robinson recognizes that the wealth disparity in California is growing and despite the state being the 4th largest economy in the world, many families live paycheck to paycheck.

“California is so unaffordable, during my 20 years in LA, there were years that I had to decide, am I going to pay for health insurance this month or am I going to pay for rent,” Robinson said at a May 16 speech in Oakland. “And I’m telling y’all, there were many months that I had to keep a roof over my head and did not have health insurance. I know I’m not alone in that.”

Robinson has put forward a plan to help workers who are faced with rising food costs, risks of job loss and increasingly unaffordable housing.

“Since the late 1970s, worker productivity has skyrocketed, but wages have barely moved,” Robinson writes on his campaign website. “Housing costs have exploded. Healthcare is out of reach. We are working longer hours, in more dangerous conditions, with fewer rights. This is not an accident, it’s the outcome of a system built to exploit labor for profit.”

Robinson says they are done begging and proposes a minimum wage of $30 an hour, union rights for all workers and wants to stop artificial intelligence from taking jobs without compensation.

Robinson stands firm on a no deportations platform and believes immigrants are what make California, California.

“Half of our kids have at least one immigrant parent,” Robinson writes on his campaign website. “Immigrants grow our food, build our cities and care for our elders—while the state and federal governments target them with harassment, detention, and deportation.”

Along with abolishing ICE, Robinson would ensure every California city is a true sanctuary city.

“So people are hungry for this and when they hear our plan that we have for immigrants and documented workers, undocumented workers, this is how we’ve been able to become the fastest growing party in California,” Ramsay said on the Latino Newsletter podcast.