Help me with writing an argumentative paper arguing FOR the prompt that we need to pay more attention to inequality and poverty, prompt below? I...

Remember that you are arguing For the idea that poverty and inequality should be considered as far more important to the middle class than is currently believed as evidenced by the recession of 2008.  I believe that this is true.

 A thesis could be that the Great Recession is proof that the middle class is  trying desperately to hang onto the visible signs of belonging still to the upper middle class instead of losing ground and sinking...

Remember that you are arguing For the idea that poverty and inequality should be considered as far more important to the middle class than is currently believed as evidenced by the recession of 2008.  I believe that this is true.

 A thesis could be that the Great Recession is proof that the middle class is  trying desperately to hang onto the visible signs of belonging still to the upper middle class instead of losing ground and sinking into the lower middle class.  This idea indicates that we as a society have to look more closely at the growing divide in this country between the haves and the have-nots.  The discrepancy in monetary ownership is startling when you look at the difference between a company president and the workers in the 1970s and now. We now truly are talking about the 1% and everyone else. 

The three body paragraphs could be three examples of risky investment or monetary behavior such as the sub-prime mortgages many used to buy houses they could not afford. You could also use examples of how people moved out of the city, requiring infrastructure not yet in place, driven by peoples' desire to own "their own piece of the American dream".  You could look at the breaking up of the unions and what that did to the middle class.  Many opportunities exist for making several paragraphs which fit this roadmap of mistakes, a route of mistakes which unfortunately is beginning again.

The ideas you are writing about in this paper are truly a blueprint for the future if we are not to repeat the mistakes of the past. Big banks which "could not fail" are again pursuing the same mistakes made in the Great Recession.  Maybe your paper could become the roadmap for the future of the middle class in this country, which is fast disappearing.