• Education

  Hankins advocates for equitable, fully funded public schools, expanded mental health supports, counselors, after-school programs, career and technical pathways, paid internships, workforce pipelines, accessible special education services, and treating early childhood education as essential infrastructure.

• Healthcare

  Hankins supports stronger oversight of hospital and insurance costs, lowering out-of-pocket expenses, expanding access to primary care and mental health services, protecting safety-net care, and treating healthcare as a right.

• Housing

  Hankins supports strengthening tenant protections, expanding rent stabilization, and increasing enforcement against rent gouging. He advocates for community ownership models like limited-equity cooperatives and pushing state investment into permanently affordable housing.

Issues Courtland is raising that aren't a shared debate across the field.

• LGBTQ+ Rights

  Hankins supports protecting gender-affirming healthcare and bodily autonomy, strengthening anti-discrimination protections in housing, employment, and public life, ensuring safe and inclusive schools free from bullying and censorship, and supporting resources for LGBTQ+ youth, seniors, and families.

• Labor

  Hankins supports union organizing, contract campaigns, and strikes; stronger enforcement against wage theft and workplace abuses; prevailing wage standards; responsible contracting with public dollars; and policies that make it easier to organize and harder for employers to retaliate.

• Reproductive Rights

  Hankins defends reproductive freedom, including access to abortion, contraception, and comprehensive reproductive healthcare. He supports strengthening privacy protections for patients and providers, expanding access for low-income communities, and maternal health initiatives to address racial disparities.