Daily Business Report: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
San Diego Unified Quietly Watered Down Its Graduation Requirements
By Jakob McWhinney | Voice of San Diego
In 2011, San Diego Unified officials voted to do something big: They made it harder to graduate high school.
That may strike many as odd. After all, people often evaluate school districts by graduation rates. Enhancing graduation standards could negatively impact that metric.
But too many kids were graduating without achieving the minimum requirements to go on to college. The new requirements raised the bar and evened the playing field, giving everyone a shot at seeking a college degree, district leaders reasoned.
DOGE Has Found $14 Billion in Medicaid Fraud, Waste, and Abuse, Dr. Mehmet Oz Says
By Jack Phillips | The Epoch Times
Dr. Mehmet Oz, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, said his agency and the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have identified at least $14 billion in fraud, waste, and abuse.
“There’s about $14 billion we’ve identified with DOGE, of folks who are duly enrolled wrongly in multiple states for Medicaid,” Oz told Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”
As an example, Oz said: “You live in New Jersey, but you move to Pennsylvania, and which state gets your Medicaid? Turns out both states collect money from the federal government.”
New Study Reports California Leads the Country in Most Moved-Out-of Cities
By Evan Symon | California Globe
According to a new study by the moving and storage company Pods, seven of the top twenty cities in the country where people are moving out of are in California, with Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area being the top two move out locations on the list.
Other Californian cities in the top twenty included San Diego in 5th place, Santa Barbara in 11th place, Stockton/Modesto in 13th place, Fresno in 17th place, and Bakersfield in 19th place. The figures were similar to where the moveouts stood last year, with L.A. and the Bay Area not changing, San Diego being in 8th place and Stockton/Modesto being in 9th place. Only one Pods service area, Sacramento, didn’t make the top twenty in either years.
20 Cities With the Highest Number of Move-Outs Ranked:
