The Marketplace Report: Big Jump in U.S. Millionaires

By Madeleine Brand

Published June 16, 2004 at 12:00 AM EDT

NPR's Madeleine Brand talks to Tess Vigeland of Marketplace about two new surveys on worker compensation that finds a jump in the number of American millionaires. The surveys also suggest merit-based pay isn't working for a lot of employers.

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Madeleine Brand

Madeleine Brand is the host of NPRs newest and fastest-growing daily show, Day to Day. She conducts interviews with newsmakers (Iraqi politicians, US senators), entertainment figures (Bernardo Bertolluci, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Gervais), and the everyday people affected by the news (an autoworker laid off at GM, a mother whose son was killed in Iraq).