Status Zer0 (uncountable)
- 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.