WASHINGTON, Oct. 18/PRNewsire/--Yesterday, while introducing his amendment to increase the federal minimum wage to $7.25 an hour, Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA) chose to ignore the economic reality of mandated wage increases. Senator Kennedy claims that his minimum wage increase is meant to help hurricane Katrina victims, many of whom are poor minorities. He does not mention that only 8 percent of the beneficiaries from his wage increase will be single mothers, and only 4 percent will be single mothers in poverty. Senator Kennedy further claims that raising the minimum wage is a minority issue, but he declines to mention that...