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The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City offers the Money Museum as an interactive lesson on currency.

One local college is helping students save money by offering textbook rentals.Metropolitan Community College is one of the few schools in the nation to start a textbook rental program, KMBC's Dion Lim reported.The cost of textbooks has tripled in the past 20 years. The college noticed that the high prices affected learning because students would either delay purchasing the book or not buy it at all."With book rental, more students get books the first day of class so they're not behind on their studies. It helps students and professors, which is what the goal is," bookstore manager Michelle Capps said.In some cases, the price of renting is almost 80 percent less than buying. One math textbook cost $100 less to rent than to buy."The difference between renting and buying is, like, wow," student Jakkob Baldwin said."It's definitely an advantage. It's about $70 just to buy each, so when I found out I could rent, I said, 'deal,'" student Jordan Miller said.Students said they also like that book renting is guaranteed, which isn't the case for textbook sell-back programs."You can't always sell them back, and it's upsetting when you don't know what to do with them when you don't use them," student Norman Schultz said.If a student wants to keep a rented book at the end of the semester, he or she just needs to pay the difference.Not all textbooks are available to be rented, but the college said it plans to add on more books in the coming years.

From an underground office near the Missouri Capitol, Monica Boone desperately tries to give away money to unsuspecting people."I've been called Santa Claus, Ed McMahon, a gift from God," Boone said.KMBC's Jim Flink reported that there are millions of dollars in unclaimed money in Kansas and Missouri.Kansas City's Bill Shapiro said he was skeptical when he received a call."I mean, I certainly wasn't expecting a phone call saying, 'You have money waiting for you,'" Shapiro said. "It goes back 30 years. It's not hundreds of thousands of dollars, but it's still meaningful money."On this day, Missouri State Treasurer Sarah Steelman filtered through the unclaimed items in one of her vaults."Now, why would anyone put an electric razor in their safe deposit box?" Steelman said.The contents range from the eclectic to the exquisite. But they also are just 1 percent of what the state is holding.