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The plight of Sweden's lost generation: what has the authorities dome with our young people Sweden? Why are up to 77 thousand in NEET?

Sunday, 02 June 2013
Tens of thousands of Sweden's youths risk being relegated to the rear or totally crushed out of the jobs market forever. They have neither worked nor studied for the past three years and their distrust of authorities and the societal order is great.
The Swedish employment Service has surveyed some young people in the country to determine if there were people with "no known activity" among the population as was speculated by some political critics. It turns out that the number of those who have never been to work or studies is staggering, in the disappointing reading.

Known with the English acronym, NEET (Not in Education, Employment or Training), they are also called "the lost generation". They are 77,000 young people aged 16 to 29 years, at this moment who are neither in work nor education for the period of three years, according to the survey presented by Swedish television in a new documentary to be aired today.
Of those, more than 20,000 have never been registered as jobseekers or been in contact with the municipality or Social Insurance office. They are known only in the population registry but no one knows what they are doing and how they have developed. This is a powerful blow to the supposedly effective Swedish political management systems and shows how Sweden has practically shifted from a caring and nurturing society to a type of capitalistic monster that cares only for the wealthy.
"There are young people who are driving around, do not have anywhere to be or go to, sitting at home and playing video games or doing nothing at all," says Petra Jansson, working on the project Young In with the Swedish Employment Service, to the Swedish television program Agenda.

"These young people are all over Sweden though the problem looks a little different in Stockholm. Here many of them for example, hang around in garages and the like, but in such places such as Skelleftea many are sitting at home and doing nothing," she says.
Young people with a foreign background are overrepresented in this classification.
One explanation may be that they do not speak good Swedish and are at greater risk of failing in school, according to the reports.
The Swedish Public Employment Service started a project called Young In, where they went around in a number of cities to find out these young people. The plan is to put them in projects that could start stimulating them into position of employability.
by Scancomark.com Team

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