Vox Sentences: Hillary Clinton’s economic plans are more liberal than you might think

Hillary Clinton's economic plan

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• Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton delivered a speech on her economic vision to New York's New School this morning, showing a "paleoliberal" side that leans more toward the left than either her husband or President Obama.

  [Vox / Matthew Yglesias]

• Among other things, Clinton came down hard on the financial sector, saying that bankers should be held criminally accountable for their actions.

  [Vox / Matthew Yglesias]

• (For more information on how difficult it is to prosecute banks, check out Vox's interview with Brandon Garrett, author of Too Big to Jail.)

  [Vox / Danielle Kurtzleben]

• Clinton also criticized her Republican rivals, focusing especially on Jeb Bush and his recent gaffe claiming that Americans should "work longer hours."

  [Vox / Jonathan Allen]

• Republicans, including Bush and Rand Paul, criticized Clinton's stance against the so-called "gig" economy. In her address, Clinton called out companies that allow users to make money by "renting out a spare room" or "driving their own car."

  [The Hill / Mario Trujillo]

• Clinton also took time to distance herself politically from Democratic rival Bernie Sanders, whose popularity has soared recently. Clinton took a softer stance than Sanders on Wall Street and criticized the country's partisan divides.

  [Washington Post / Amber Phillips]

• Read the full text of Clinton's remarks here.

  [Vox / Jonathan Allen]

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Scott Walker announces presidential bid

• Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker entered the GOP primary this morning, becoming the 15th major Republican candidate.

  [NYT / Patrick Healy]

• In Wisconsin, Walker is known for implementing almost $2 billion in tax breaks — and for cutting spending on health care, education, and the enviornment in order to do so.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Walker has also previously proposed an amendment to the Constitution that would place the decision of legalizing same-sex marriage in the hands of individual states.

• In 2011, Walker signed Act 10, a labor law that reduced the bargaining power of unions — leading to a dramatic decrease in union membership in the state.

  [Vox / Andrew Prokop]

• Walker's anti-union stance has drawn the attention of the Koch brothers, the billionaire Republican donors who many believe plan to back Walker for president.

  [Vox / Jonathan Allen]

• On Sunday, less than 24 hours before announcing his bid, Walker approved Wisconsin's new budget after vetoing 104 items.

  [Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel / Mary Spicuzza and Patrick Marley]

• Among other things, the new budget decreases funding for public universities and requires drug testing for those in public assistance programs like unemployment insurance or food stamps.

  [Washington Post / Valerie Strauss]

• A recent Quinnipiac Univeristy poll found Walker was leading the Republican pack in Iowa, 8 percentage points ahead of second-place finishers Donald Trump and Ben Carson.

  [Quinnipiac University]

• For a full rundown of Walker's policies (including his attempts to boost his national security cred), check out our Scott Walker cardstack.

  [Vox / Matthew Yglesias ]

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Drug lord "El Chapo" escapes prison

• Joaquín Guzmán Loera, also known as El Chapo, escaped from Mexico's high-security Altiplano prison Saturday night using a mile-long tunnel that connected the prison to a nearby construction site.

  [NYT / Larry Buchanan, Josh Keller, and Derek Watkins]

• This is not Guzmán's first prison escape: In 2001, he snuck out of Puente Grande prison in a laundry truck. Seventy-one prison officials were later indicted for assisting in the escape.

  [NYT / Tim Weiner]

• Guzmán is the head of Mexico's Sinaloa cartel, which is believed to be one of the most politically influential cartels in the country. The cartel is known for bribing its way out of trouble.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• The escape is proving to be an embarrassment for the administration of President Enrique Peña Nieto, which declined last year to extradite Guzmán to what might have been a more secure prison in the US.

  [New Yorker / Patrick Radden Keefe]

• Peña Nieto's government is still recovering from the humiliation of allowing 43 students to disappear, and from accusations that both the president and his wife are mired in corruption.

  [Vox / Amanda Taub]

• According to internal Drug Enforcement Administration documents obtained by the Associated Press, the American government knew about the possibility of an escape plan as early as March 2014.

  [Time / Alicia A. Caldwell]

• Republican presidential contender Donald Trump seemed almost gleeful in a series of tweets on Guzmán's escape, in which he wrote, "I told you so!"

  [CS Monitor / Henry Gass]

• Trump has generated controversy by accusing Mexican immigrants of being rapists and drug dealers.

Misc.

• To start your week off right, here are 11 ways the world has become a better place.

  [Vox / Zack Beauchamp ]

• This afternoon, President Barack Obama commuted the sentences of 46 nonviolent offenders in federal prisons.

  [Vox / Dara Lind]

• A little over a week after Greek voters rejected austerity via a national referendum, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras signed a bailout plan with the rest of the eurozone, agreeing to severe concessions.

  [The Economist ]

• A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association questions the ubiquitious "fact" that most rapes on college campuses are committed by a small group of serial rapists.

  [FiveThirtyEight / Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux]

• There's something else remarkable about New Horizons' journey to photograph Pluto: Scientists on NASA's team believe the project might involve more women than any other NASA mission in history.

  [The Atlantic / Adrienne LaFrance]

• Okinawa's Prefectural Assembly voted to instate a ban on bringing foreign sand and soil into the Japanese island chain, as a way to block the relocation of the American military's controversial Futenma airbase.

  [Japan Times]

• According to both her biographer and her daughter-in-law, the late Hollywood icon Loretta Young may have been the victim of date rape — and it was decades before she even realized there was a term to describe what had happened.

  [BuzzFeed / Anne Helen Petersen]

• The Pentagon may soon overturn its ban on openly serving trans soldiers in the military.

  [Vox / German Lopez]

Verbatim

• "There is no fundamentally gay voice. Sounding gay is available to everybody."

  [David Thorpe via the New Republic / Malcolm Thorndike Nicholson]

• "We inherited this way of thinking from past generations: conquer the earth, take ownership of it, dominate it. Right now, the world doesn't see we're a part of nature, that when we cut down the rainforest or blow apart a mountain to get the coal inside, or when we drill the Arctic, that's tearing apart the only home we've got."

  [Xiuhtezcatl Martinez to Rolling Stone / Coco McPherson]

• "Buena Vista’s advocates have largely been galvanized around a now-standard Silicon Valley irony — that a region so concerned with 'changing the world' is able to so fully ignore the indigence of its own residents."

  [The Awl / Andrew Thompson]

• "No one, not Donald Trump, not anyone else, will be successful in dividing us based on race or on our country of origin ... America becomes a greater nation, a stronger nation, when we stand together as one people and in a loud and clear voice we say no to racism and bigotry."

  [Bernie Sanders via the Hill / Jesse Byrnes]

• "There's a photography term called 'the decisive moment.' It means knowing when to snap the shutter at the perfect second. My decisive moments come after I've taken the pictures, when I make my selections on my big screen. I'm often surprised at the accidental pictures, like a bird perched in a tree, or power lines that make for an abstract composition."

  [Vox / Tammy Ruggles]

Video of the day

• This Business Insider video shows the development of the world's five major religions — Hinduism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam — over the past several millennia.

  [Business Insider]