Lexie works monday to friday from 4 p. m. to 6 p. m. in the after-school program at a local elementary school. she began looking for a full-time job last week and has already scheduled three job interviews. according to the bureau of labor statistics, lexie is: not in the labor force. unemployed. employed. a discouraged worker.

As nina and erin were eating lunch in the central high school student cafeteria, they were discussing the news coverage about the girls' athletic coach being arrested for selling steroids to student athletes. "i think the guy just did it because they don't pay teachers enough money," nina suggested. "i bet the guy had some other kind of drug addiction he was trying to pay for," erin countered. nina and erin's ideas about the cause of the coach's drug-selling behavior are examples of: