Survey: Number Of U.S. Millionaires Increases

by Jim Zarroli, NPR

The poverty rate may be up, but so is the number of millionaires. A survey of U.S. households with "investible assets" of $1 million or more was up 8 percent in a year. It's a big increase, and brings the population of millionaires back to where it was in 2006.

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• Morning Edition, September 17, 2010