Scrolling in bedrooms after midnight a driver of youth joblessness Milburn

The Independent emphasizes on-the-ground reporting and separating facts from messaging across issues including reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech. It highlights investigations into political financing and documentary work focused on American reproductive rights. It states that donations fund journalists and that reporting and analysis remain accessible without paywalls. Separately, Alan Milburn warns that anxiety linked to social media drives economic inactivity among young people. He says young people not in employment, education, or training are not “snowflakes” but a “bedroom generation” living online. He links social media use to disrupted sleep patterns and concentration, affecting work ability. An interim report on young NEETs is expected to be published next week, including evidence from 12- and 13-year-olds who go to bed between midnight and 3am while scrolling.

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"Anxiety linked to social media is driving economic inactivity among young people, according to the former minister tasked with looking at why almost a million are neither working nor learning. Alan Milburn has told The Times newspaper that young people who are not in employment, education or training (Neet) are not snowflakes. Instead, they are part of a bedroom generation, Mr Milburn said."

"Young people's sleep patterns and concentration levels are affected by social media, the former health secretary warned, and that is having an impact on their ability to work. He said: People say it's a soft generation. My view unequivocally is that it isn't. It is an anxious generation. Mr Milburn's interim report into young Neets is expected to be published next week."

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