The good news is that California, after appealing, got its Federal work participation fiscal years 2007 and 2008 reduced to zero. Bad news is – we failed again, by 2.2%, for the all-families rate. DSS has appealed, citing recession, disasters, our being one of the few states that doesn’t have full family sanctions, etc., and also has attached a survey to counties to allow individual counties to assert reasonable cause. [Download]