Levin Becker
The Connecticut Mirror is expanding coverage of health and health care with the addition of Arielle Levin Becker to the reporting staff.
Levin Becker has worked for The Hartford Courant since 2006, most recently as its health reporter. She also has covered education and municipal beats for the Courant and for the Home Town News of East Brunswick, N.J. She joins The Mirror effective today.
In 2009 she was a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists and a recipient of a Knight Science Journalism Fellowship. She is a 2004 graduate of Yale University.
Funding for health reporting at The Connecticut Mirror comes from supporters including the Connecticut Health Foundation.
Other major supporters of The Connecticut Mirror include The Community Foundation of Greater New Haven, the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Melville Charitable Trust, The San Francisco Foundation, the Seedlings Foundation, the Tremaine Foundation and the William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund.
Stephen F. Cashman, chairman of the elections enforcement commission
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THE MINIMUM WAGE
Connecticut's hourly minimum wage of $8.25 is one of the highest in the nation, trailing Washington at $9.04, Oregon at $8.80 and Vermont at $8.46.
Five of the six New England states exceed the federal minimum of $7.25. The exception is New Hampshire, whose minimum is the same as the feds.
Connecticut is one of 18 states with a minimum higher than the federal standard. Twenty-thrree are at the federal level, four are below it and five have no minimum wage.
Ten states have a minimum wage indexed to the cost of living.
Source: U.S. Department of Labor
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