Young Sardinians live an invisible life: one in five neither studies nor seeks work.

They've dropped out of school and are out of the workforce. Statistics call them NEETs, an acronym for young people between the ages of 15 and 34 with no resume or prospects. One in five young people in Sardinia lives like this. Two in ten. Twenty in a hundred. That's 20.2%.

The plight of the invisible has just been revisited by Gi Group , together with the Toniolo Institute's Youth Observatory and the ZeroNeet Foundations of Cariplo and Compagnia di San Paolo. Italy, increasingly a country for old people, cannot afford to have so many young people out of school and out of the world of paychecks.

The full article by Alessandra Carta in L'Unione Sarda, on newsstands today and on the L'Unione Digital app.