panel in Atlanta that we recently co-sponsored with North Carolina-based nonprofit SJF Advisory Services, six leaders of successful small organizations that employ low-income workers discussed how they engage their employees to grow their businesses while creating great work environments along the way. One theme that emerged in this discussion was the ability of the leadership to value highly the work of everyone, starting with the receptionisLow-income workers face tough obstacles. From a reluctance by Congress to raise the federal minimum wage above the level that was set a decade ago to the fact that four out of 10 low-income parents below between 100 and 200 percent of the poverty level don't receive any kind of paid time off (according to the Urban Institute), it's no wonder trickle-effect issues, including rising debt and home foreclosures, make more headlines than ever.

And then there's the heated, increasingly multifaceted immigration debate, which affects some 12 million undocumented foreign workers in the U.S. The Urban Institute also published research which found that in 2001, immigrants represented 11 percent of the country's population, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers in our economy.

Currrently, the U.S. Senate is working on a bill that would include a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the illegal immigrants already here. If this bill becomes law, businesses – over 99 percent of which are small firms, according the Small Business Administration – will need to concentrate on how best to educate and grow the skills of their immigrant employees.

However, this focus is already on the minds of many progressive small business leaders. They realize that building workplaces that foster educational opportunities for the less educated in their workforces, and which teach valuable skills to workers with skill deficits, yields many benefits. These range from those which increase the bottom line, including lower turnover and absenteeism along with higher productivity, to ones which enrich the lives of their workers by recognizing that they have commitments and interests outside the workplace.

At the Winning Workforces CEO panel in Atlanta that we recently co-sponsored with North Carolina-based nonprofit SJF Advisory Services, six leaders of successful small organizations that employ low-income workers discussed how they engage their employees to grow their businesses while creating great work environments along the way. One theme that emerged in this discussion was the ability of the leadership to value highly the work of everyone, starting with the receptionis

p>And then there's the heated, increasingly multifaceted immigration debate, which affects some 12 million undocumented foreign workers in the U.S. The Urban Institute also published research which found that in 2001, immigrants represented 11 percent of the country's population, but 14 percent of all workers and 20 percent of low-wage workers in our economy.

Currrently, the U.S. Senate is working on a bill that would include a guest worker program and a path to citizenship for the illegal immigrants already here. If this bill becomes law, businesses – over 99 percent of which are small firms, according the Small Business Administration – will need to concentrate on how best to educate and grow the skills of their immigrant employees.

However, this focus is already on the minds of many progressive small business leaders. They realize that building workplaces that foster educational opportunities for the less educated in their workforces, and which teach valuable skills to workers with skill deficits, yields many benefits. These range from those which increase the bottom line, including lower turnover and absenteeism along with higher productivity, to ones which enrich the lives of their workers by recognizing that they have commitments and interests outside the workplace.

At the Winning Workforces CEO panel in Atlanta that we recently co-sponsored with North Carolina-based nonprofit SJF Advisory Services, six leaders of successful small organizations that employ low-income workers discussed how they engage their employees to grow their businesses while creating great work environments along the way. One theme that emerged in this discussion was the ability of the leadership to value highly the work of everyone, starting with the receptionis

ker program and a path to citizenship for the illegal immigrants already here. If this bill becomes law, businesses – over 99 percent of which are small firms, according the Small Business Administration – will need to concentrate on how best to educate and grow the skills of their immigrant employees.

However, this focus is already on the minds of many progressive small business leaders. They realize that building workplaces that foster educational opportunities for the less educated in their workforces, and which teach valuable skills to workers with skill deficits, yields many benefits. These range from those which increase the bottom line, including lower turnover and absenteeism along with higher productivity, to ones which enrich the lives of their workers by recognizing that they have commitments and interests outside the workplace.

At the Winning Workforces CEO panel in Atlanta that we recently co-sponsored with North Carolina-based nonprofit SJF Advisory Services, six leaders of successful small organizations that employ low-income workers discussed how they engage their employees to grow their businesses while creating great work environments along the way. One theme that emerged in this discussion was the ability of the leadership to value highly the work of everyone, starting with the receptionis

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