Still, reading the news over this Thanksgiving weekend, I had to wonder if the American people have reached a breaking point. Something remarkable -- and not in a good way -- has happened slowly to the U.S. economy over the past generation. For years, we've been talking about the fast-growing "service sector" of the economy, but two truths were left unspoken: 1) the new jobs here tend to be only those that can't be outsourced to places like China or Bangladesh and 2) service worker jobs tend to be at places like fast-food restaurants and big-box retailers, non-unionized and paying at or little more than the minimum wage, not enough to support a family in most cities. Yet increasingly it's adults -- even parents -- forced to take these jobs.