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A government-commissioned review led by Alan Milburn has attributed rising youth economic inactivity in the UK — 957,000 young people classified as NEET — to smartphone-driven anxiety and mental ill-health. But economists, employers, and health researchers argue the framing obscures deeper structural failures: underfunded mental health services, precarious employment, and a welfare system that spends 25 times more on benefits than on getting young people into jobs.

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