7 Things: Student loan borrowers free ride is over; Trump to speak at Alabama; Alabama book battle gets support from US Supreme Court; and more …

7. President Donald Trump is said to be considering proposing a $5,000 financial bonus to encourage higher birth rates, aiming to address declining population trends but ignoring how damn expensive having kids is.

6. Some librarians and community members in Fairhope prefer to lose state funding for their public library after voting to retain sexually charged books with explicit content in its juvenile section.

5.  The U.S. Supreme Court appears to favor parents in a religious liberty dispute over books with explicit content being used in curriculum, signaling support for free exercise rights by letting the parents opt-out of the lessons. Liberal Justice Elana Kagan said she was “struck by these young kids’ picture books and, on matters concerning sexuality, I suspect there are a lot of non-religious parents who weren’t all that thrilled about this.”

4. State Rep. Patrick Sellers (D-Pleasant Grove) surprisingly and passionately endorsed a bill to display the Ten Commandments in public schools, emphasizing its cultural and moral significance. The move bucked his party in the Legislature and online.

3. The University of Alabama announced that President Donald Trump will deliver a “historic” commencement address, eliciting mixed reactions from students, political groups, and alumni, ranging from shame to encouragement with one pathetic pouting past graduate, Katie Bennett, saying they will skip graduation.

2. The Alabama State Senate greenlit President Pro Tem Garland Gudger’s (R-Cullman) economic development bill that would permit the annexation of non-contiguous land and allow those areas to join “wet” areas in “dry” counties.

1. It looks like a bunch of student loan borrowers may want to consider joining the military after the White House announced plans to recover unpaid student loan debt by targeting pensions, wages, and tax returns. The media is raising concerns about financial impacts on borrowers who willingly borrowed money and are now having to pay it back.

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Dale Jackson is a thought leader for Yellowhammer News and hosts a talk show from 5-9 a.m. weekdays on WVNN.