A disconnected class is taking shape, but is absent from the headline statistics, say John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times. LONDON: People’s early interactions with the labour market are so critically important for shaping their futures that in the 1990s British researchers came up with the acronym “NEET” – standing for young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training – to capture the group of adolescents and 20-somethings struggling to make the transition from compulsory