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Budget cuts thanks to the stalled economy have imperiled care for the mentally ill, left a new school building unstaffed, and perhaps most disastrously, limited efforts to keep nukes out of the hands
of terrorists. And yet the Federal Reserve Bank
of Richmond is sitting on $1 billion in
gold dollar coins it says the American public has little interest in using.
Two reporters from NPR's Planet Money visited the facility where the coins are kept, in Baltimore, Md.