I wish to know thoughts on:

"....Entrenched (Poverty)....definition
Adjective...
(of an attitude, habit, or belief) firmly established and difficult or unlikely to change; ingrained.
‘an entrenched resistance to change’..."

Entrenched poverty and the broader community response.

Entrenched poverty and NGO response.

Entrenched poverty and Government response.

Entrenched poverty and personal responsibility of the poor themselves.

Entrenched poverty and its definition.

The avoidance of entrenched poverty.

And anything in additional thoughts on the subject.

diver dan,

Does this help?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycle_of_poverty

The other possible scenario is common enough to be instructive. Many here may come from families that were decimated, all men gone and the remainder severely disabled by two wars. The banks and suppliers still have to be paid.
That applied to my own family on both sides. Imagine trying to keep family and farms going, they had to care for their disabled, with the long droughts, poor prices and other problems of food production. They lived super-tight and did everything themselves. No medical treatment available either, just the Flying Doctor if you were seriously ill. But they survived and raised their families. I can give you dozens of similar stories from friends and others I have come across.

Whereas some never tried and still don't. Even despite the support they get.
But why not?

To become independent you must first think and act that way. It takes pride.
It takes years without any guarantee of getting anywhere.

Look closely enough and you will see choice at work. Most are what I call micro-choices, for example to get up, make the bed and move. But it all adds up.

Thanks LeoJ

So many threads from your post above, but best summarised under generational poverty.

The link is educational.

What prompted me to post this subject was observations in my own community, and my angry response to the blatant exploitation of the poor in it.

Real estate agents head the list of the “low-life” and the “unmerciful”.

I've watched while the town was “cleansed” of the poor, and substituted by the wealth of the road workers, constructing the new Pacific Hwy extensions.

This town is without a soul, and is thankfully beginning to devour itself with greed. The wealthy are now attacking the wealthy. That's a story in itself!

Here's a few more links that may help:

http://www.acoss.org.au/media_release/disadvantage-is-entrenched-and-structural-in-poorest-communities/

http://acoss.wpengine.com/inequality/

Some poor people are just unlucky. Many poor people are deeply flawed people. These flaws are largely the result of what is called "unresolved intergenerational trauma." Put simply, adults who had unhappy childhoods tend to become shonky parents, locking families in a cycle that is hard to escape. No one chooses to be a crap parent, but many people haven't had it modelled to them.

It takes several generations of people who just do a bit better than their own parents to fix the problem.

Did anyone watch "Q and A" on the ABC last night?
Jimmy Barnes opened up about his life and coming
back from the brink. This "Working Class Man,"
was truly inspirational. I'm now going to look into
getting hold of his latest book.