Status Zer0

Status Zer0 (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of status zer0
   • 2000, Stephen Miles, Youth Lifestyles In A Changing World, →ISBN, page 43:

     An effective analysis of some of the structural limitations that exist in people's lives with particular reference to the problems experienced by Status Zer0 youth.

   • 2006, Robert Macdonald, Youth, The 'Underclass' and Social Exclusion, →ISBN, page 74:

     So few young people found employment they are almost immaterial to the analysis. For the purposes of this paper, one critical finding was that two-fifths of these young people experienced Status Zer0 for six months or more (an arbitrary cut-off point, but a pertinent one nonetheless, since it represents a quarter of the full course of a youth training programme).

   • 2013, Andreas Walther, Misleading Trajectories, →ISBN:

     While few parents would endorse the unemployed status of their offspring at this age, a proportion of 16 and 17 year olds faced with limited opportunities in employment or training, opt out of the system altogether (Status Zer0).

   • 2014, Anne Robinson, Foundations for Youth Justice: Positive Approaches to Practice, →ISBN, page 78:

     Unemployed young people and those not engaged in education or training -- pejoratively referred to first as Status Zer0 and then NEETs (Furlong, 2006) -- became a special focus of concern, with a consequent drive to encourage, if not to coerce, participation.