RICHARD MORRIS TITMUSS


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Richard Morris Titmuss

… minimum wages must be high enough to enable all citizens to purchase privately the necessary pension and insurance plans which would protect the them against illness, disablement, temporary unemployment and old age.
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The minimum wage has never come close to meeting this ideal criterion in any country of the world. At the same time, health insurance costs in the U. S. and some other countries has been increasing at a much greater rate than wages, making this ideal situation even more unattainable.

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Richard Morris Titmuss
  • Born: October 16, 1907
  • Died: April 6, 1973
  • Nationality: British
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Richard Morris Titmuss CBE FBA (1907–1973) was a pioneering British social researcher and teacher. He founded the academic discipline of social administration (now largely known in universities as social policy) and held the founding chair in the subject at the London School of Economics.