‘I just got AI emails rejecting my application – or no reply at all’: this is the soul-crushing reality of being a Neet | John Harris
Those I spoke to just want to know what they have to do to finally get a job – and a chance in life Callum Atkinson is 23 years old, and lives in the Greater Manchester town of Rochdale.
Key points
- Milburn – quite rightly – thinks the UK’s estimated 981,000 Neets represent the profound risk of “a lost generation” and a “moral crisis” that is already upon us.
- Alan Milburn describes them as a ‘lost generation’.
If you are interested in matters of finance as well as ethics, you may also be aware that the annual cost of maintaining such young people was recently put at £125bn, which is more than the British state spends on either education or defence.
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