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Nearly one in five UK 16 and 17-year-olds is a Neet

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21 07 08 - 09:43 Nearly one in five UK 16 and 17-year-olds is a Neet - neither in employment, education or training - a study seen by the BBC suggests.

Official figures say such youths make up 7% of their age group in England.

But research by the London School of Economics (LSE) says 18% across the UK spend most of their time doing nothing.

Children's Minister Beverley Hughes said: "We are making preparations now for every young person of 16 to 17 to be in education or training."
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Should that be allowed? Calling people "Neets"? Sounds like discrimination to me!

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"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

From William Shakespeare's "Macbeth"