Labor unionization seeks to level the inherent power imbalance between employer and employee. Companies like Amazon show their hand when they launch aggressive anti-union campaigns, they understand the power the labor movement holds.

The federal minimum wage in the United States of America is $7.25 an hour. Costs of living and state minimum wage laws vary across the country, but a study of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Data demonstrated that the cost of living isn’t low enough anywhere.

Rosenfeld, for GoBankingRates, reported that nowhere in the U.S. can a minimum wage worker afford rent on their own single bedroom or studio apartment. Even if they share their space with a roommate – there are only 15 states where two people making minimum wage can afford to live in a two bedroom apartment.

A number of studies sought to understand and quantify the link between job satisfaction and life satisfaction. A study published to the National Library of Medicine explores many hypotheses that seek to explain the strong correlation between how satisfied individuals are with their employment and their lives overall.

“In job settings, a recent meta-analysis (Van den Broeck et al., 2016), reviewing 99 studies with 119 distinct samples, found that the satisfaction of basic psychological needs at work is significantly associated with higher well-being (e.g., life satisfaction)”

Full time employment dominates at least forty waking hours each week. People clamor for...

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