It's never too early to really start saving right or looking into scholarships, which is what the NYC Kids RISE Program is about.

A New York City program encourages children to save from kindergarten.

A foundation created by Blackstone Inc. President Jon Gray and his wife Mindy is partnering with the United Negro College Fund to create scholarships for New Yorkers to attend historically Black colleges and universities.

The next big advance in cancer treatment could be a vaccine.

On any given day, the five of us are leading very different lives. While one of us is visiting a small business, another is meeting with public safety advocates, and another is hunkered down in a district office, figuring out how to handle constituent issues about everything from housing to trash pickup. But if we're being honest, we all have the same favorite constituent activity: visiting schools.

We can level the playing field in college admissions