chic high-tech retail environments like apple store. it features tablets to read about each strain of marijuana and spacious area for customers to examine buds under light. david: i don't know. "the willis report" is next. gerri: hello, everybody, i'm gerri willis. right now on "the willis report" , two safety advocates stage a last minute effort to stop chinese chicken coming into the united states. we have important news for all consumers. forget plastic. cash is king. we'll have our next family who are taking our cash challenge. our special report, a user's guide to education. the college degree giving you the most bang for your buck. we're watching out for you on "the willis report." gerri: we have good news tonight, no, great news. we begin with a medical breakthrough. new research indicates spinal cord injuries may no longer mean a lifelong sentence of

paralysis. the exciting results come from a new technique which uses electrical stimulation of the nerves. we have doctor from national institute of health which took part in the study. dr. gray, thanks for coming on the show. tell us how this technology works? >> thank you very much, gerri, i'm glad to be here. so this technology uses spinal stimulation. it takes off the shelf technology, which medtronic has developed to simulate the surface of the spinal column. those these patients who are severely injured with spinal cord injury are implanted with spinal stimulation electrodes and these electrodes send signals to move the legs. gerri: people are moving their legs. they are wiggling their toes. people who thought they would never have hope for doing that will these people walk again? >> well, of course that is the ultimate goal. but please remember, that this is the first step in a very long

research study which we at the national institutes of health and in particular, my institute, the national institute of biomedical imaging and bio engineering funded. so this is a first step translating decades of fundamental basic neuroscience research to the clinic and to humans. gerri: interesting. so, essentially what happens, and keeping in mind here, there are some 23,000 people with spinal cord injuries in the u.s. but in this research, what you're doing is essentially implanting a box, in people's backs. now, would they essentially wear this their entire lives? what is the plan? how do you extend what has been incredible performance so far? >> so, this again, is a research study in which the device is implanted in the body. the next step actually is to look at other types of technology in which this stimulator may not be actually

implanted in body, but surface of the spine call cord or to the neck. gerri: wow, so lots of changes yet to come. my understanding that so far you haven't solved the problem of moving both legs. you can only move one at a time. so it is baby steps quite literally here. what else needs to be done? what other problems you need to solve to make this more robust as a solution? >> the researchers are developing new technologies. they're improving the stimulator itself so that we can, so that they can program more efficiently how to allow the different parts of the legs to move more efficiently. as i said, we're also developing a new stimulator that is applied above the skin, on the surface of the spine call cord and the neck. >> and you've been saying that this is not a cure but, boy, it must feel like heaven to the

people involved in the study. you're just getting started here. we'll have to keep an eye on this. thanks for coming on the show tonight. great to see you. >> oh, thank you. gerri: good luck with your study. >> thank you. gerri: awesome stuff. >> thank you very much. gerri: well, from medical innovation to food safety, food safety advocate cates were on capitol hill today trying to stop chinese chicken from coming into this country. last year the federal government, if you remember this, we reported it, lifted a ban on imports of processed chicken from china even though we can't guaranty the food's safety. tony carbo from food and water watch was on capitol hill. he joins us. tony, thanks for being with us. we've had questions about this for a long time and i know you were bringing up a lot of the issues around this processed chicken. actually it doesn't come from china but it's processed in china. let me tell you some of the things, some of the reasons that we were concerned if you'll remember. there was mercury in baby formula, the tainted milk

powder. these are stories we heard over the years. rat meat sold aslam be. tainted pet treats. of course the famous images of 16,000 pig carcasses dumped in a river. should we be concerned from your point of view. >> yes a lot of those same issues exist because the food safety system in china still has not been improved. so we w on capitol hill today to educate congressional staff about the food safety issues in china and to try to garner support for amendments to the -- usda appropriations bill this year to put a halt to this. gerri: i just don't understand. we have a problem with chicken in this country already and that is domestically produced chicken. there are some instances of salmonella, all kinds of poisoning going on all over the country, big issues. "consumer reports" released a report not that long ago, that most of the chicken you picked up in the grocery store had a

problem that if you don't cook it correctly, you will be in trouble. why do we want to bring in processed chicken from china? >> well this really revolves around a trade issue. back in 2003 we had a case of mad cow disease with one cow in washington state. and that one cow stopped our exports to most of the rest of the world of our beef. china was one of the countries. and so when us-da went back to our trading partners asking to reopen beef trade, china said, well, if you want us to take your beef, you're going to have to take our chicken. that was in 2004. those discussions have been going on since then. gerri: but at what price? i mean, you know, i understand the politics of the thing but do we really want to endanger american consumers and possibly schoolchildren? here's my concern. so this is processed chicken, right? so it is not necessarily will be

labeled where we find out. you say, no, no the chinese processed chicken. i will take the u.s. processed chicken. consumers may not have a choice. >> absolutely. our country of origin labeling laws and regulations are limited to raw product. so if it's a cooked, if it is cooked it is considered to be processed and country of origin requirement, country of origin labeling requirement is eliminated. this don't have to label it. gerri: we've been talking about this so long for this issue. seems to me it gets worse and worse. i think people would be surprised to know, there will not be any fd aft inspectors over there, right? we don't have people on the ground saying you're doing the right thing, we like your processes, everything is clean, right. >> absolutely correct. usda will not station inspectors in those processing plants when they cook or bread the chicken to send back to the united states. so we're not going be assured,

we'll not going to be assured we're getting back a poultry that was either raised in the united states or canada or chile. those are the three approved countries that can send raw product to china, for them to process to send back. now you brought up the example of the rat meat that was being sold as mutton. it won't take a rocket scientist to disguise chicken raised in china for chicken that is raised in the united states and send it back to us. so this is, this is a big concern for us. that there's going to be, there will be loopholes in this system. we're not going to have adequate checks and we're going to put, our consumers at risk. you raise a very good point. we have enough problems with our own poultry in the united states. why should we import somebody else's? >> tony, i got to tell you, i think people would be shocked to hear what you just explained. the amount of frequent flyer points these chickens will have. i guess they travel by cargo

container ship. but they go everywhere, right? these are not even chickens that necessarily come pro usa, right. >> correct, absolutely. they can come from canada. they can come from chile and they can send them to china. the meat is processed and sent to the united states. gerri: unbelievable. just surviving transportation, makes you wonder about the safety of the food once it reaches the u.s. tony, thanks for coming on the show. appreciate your time. >> thank you very much for having me on. gerri: thank you. still to come this hour, another couple take as "willis report" cash challenge, vowing to go credit card-free. we'll hear the man taking on general motors. there he is. he is demanding all recall cars to stay parked until they're fixed. we'll talk to him.

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show. this is fascinating story. you say you have a client who had trouble with their gm car and they did not have the big heavy key chain that we heard so much about. tell us about her. >> that's right. so, general motors told all of their customers in their recall letter that even if you don't have anything on your key chain, if you hit a rough patch of road or have a sudden jarring event such as a pothole, this could still occur. even if you do everything they say in regards to the key. so mary barra tells senator blumenthal on the senate floor, you show me one instance of this happening. when it is just the key and no weight and i will ground the entire fleet in the united states. gerri: tell us about your client. you have somebody who actually experienced this. what happened? >> yeah. i have three of them. i have a client that got the recall letter, took all the weight off the key. was driving to walmart and, suddenly her car died. she had no steering.

fortunately she wasn't involved in an accident. so again i sent her statement to the ceo and said, live up to what you said you were going to do. gerri: and you have other clients as well. so, what you're saying is this whole problem has been mischaracterized as an issue of just the heaviness of the key chain. that is all we really heard about, let's face it, causing problems with airbags not deploying, the car essentially going dead and people, 13 deaths, 300 accidents. lots and lots of problems. what do you think should happen? what are you asking this federal district judge to do? >> to order gm to issue a park it now alert. listen, gerri, there are two million vehicles right now on the roads of the united states that have this defect. and they can not yet be repaired. so regardless of how safely you drive, when you go home tonight after this show, a cobalt could lose control and hit you head on. there is nothing you can do bit.

gerri: and as a matter of fact -- >> there is no safe way. gerri: as a matter of fact, senator boxer has said, you know, we just don't need to recall cars owned by american consumers. we have to recall cars owned by rental companies because people are renting these cars and could be having some of the same problems. bob, i want to ask you a question. news flash this afternoon. we got it in earlier on the network. gm is being penalized $28,000 by nits sachs the regulators for failure to respond to questions that they asked them last week. these answers were turned in. they were not complete. what do you make of that? >> you know that's a perfect example of nhtsa being unable to regulate this huge car company. that's the same me telling you to go to your purse, pull out a penny and give it up as a fine. you know, generalot has $24 billion in cash on hand. you know, that kind of fine, it is cheaper for them not to comply than it is to comply if

that is the kind of fine they can expect. gerri: so you're waiting on the judge. you don't have a response now. when do you expect some kind of a response? >> late friday, early next week. she's looking a the evidence and she has asked for more briefing and so my hope is, given that this is current, ongoing, public safety issue, literally as we speak right now, that we're saving tomorrow's victim by her issuing an order demanding that gm send this notice. gerri: well, i got to tell you, we have a long way to go on this story. thanks for coming on the show. appreciate your time. maybe you should next time bring one of the folks who is making this claim that single key alone can create problems for these gm cars. thank you so much for coming on. >> happy to do it. you're welcome, thank you. gerri: coming up, do you, do you trust your tax preparer? new efforts to stop predatory tax preparers. some people say more regulation is needed. is it? and next our users guide to education. which college degree gives you

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gerri: our users guide is heating up tonight. we're helping students, parents, even grandparents finance a college education, everything from appealing your subpar aid packages to digging up free money. first we're helping you get the most bang for your college bucks with cal cheney, founder and

president of campus consultants. the author of the book, "paying for college without going broke." great to have you back on the show. always nice to have you here. >> thank you. gerri: this is the tile of year, mom, dad, kids, get your acceptance letter, package for money, you find out how much money they're willing to give you. what should people think about in terms of affordability though? what can families afford? how do you do that calculation? >> one thing for people, that is somewhat individual thing what you can afford to pay and that depends on priorities but one thing to be careful about is amount of debt. parents say, students can borrow, we'll could sign the loan and let them take care of later. never borrow the course of the degree more than the average salary of the degree or career you're interested in. gerri: totaled debt should not be more than first year's salary. that you can figure it out. that will be tough for some people in some careers actually do. what careers really pay off for

students. >> those tend to be the stem careers. now those require a lost discipline, prep work. stem is the science, technology, engineering and mathematics. some of those are even liberal arts disciplines. the mathematic, but those are very rigorous courses of study. the average starting salaryies are quite high for those jobs if you can get them. those programs -- gerri: a lot of ceos are pushing the next generation go into these fields. 28% now going into stem careers, up from 20% in 1997. we're seeing more and more students do it but i have to tell you, there are some really sting co-degrees out there, that people spend a lot of time and a lot of money getting. what are some degrees that really don't have payoffs. >> it is in part depends on the student but of course -- gerri: yeah, that's true. >> liberal arts are difficult. some are low-paying professions. art, that doesn't say one shouldn't do that but you should

not be borrowing a large amount of money assuming you will make the huge big bucks to get out to be able to sustain that debt but soft skills, no matter what you have, that is very important. whatever you major in. that is big lacking thing with employers, students lack soft skills, critical thinking, communication skills. important they develop those regardless what they major in, they will have better shot getting a job when they get out. gerri: salary.com reports worst jobs for return on investment, communications, hello, a lot of people in this build having that. psychology,m, religious studies and and i know a lot of people in category number five. not a lot to make money there. that is not what people are going for. if you look at schools for best return on investment, same schools all over. harvey mudd college, mit. tell us about the schools where graduates do super well. >> top five schools to pay scale, harvey mudd, mit,

caltech, stanford, stephens institute of technology. those of course have high returns on investmented because they tend to be schools where there are large stem graduates, a percentage of the graduates. that is one thing to bear in mind, somewhat self-selecting. students are primarily in the high-paying majors that they go there. in terms of looking at return on investment you want to look at your aid package. what are you actually paying? then avoiding the debt so that if you're going to school where you don't incur with a lot of debt you have more flexibility majoring because you're not tied down to certain career because you have to pay off a student loan. gerri: talk about some of the things people do wrong when applying for aid. let me tell you, some folks will look down and look at package they get and have to go look more aid. some mistakes are silly like putting down wrong social security number but beyond that what are some of the mistakes people make? >> they also think somehow this is altruistic charitable thing. they don't realize it's a business decision when you're

applying for financial aid. when the college wants you and attractive you which get better -- gerri: you're a product, the student is a product in the marketplace. >> people think you're looking at colleges but they're really your target market, they selected where you live, s.a.t. scores and target you as likely student to go to the school. you need to be savvy with the process. when you strip away ivy you basically have a business and college will not show you how to maximize your eligibility for it. you need to do the homework, know how the formulas work. best case advantage. file forms on time. big mistake is waiting to be accepted at a school, to apply for financial aid. some people wait too late. they miss priority deadlines. those are by each school. gerri: you can still apply. kal cheney, thanks for coming on, great advice and great perspective, thank you. we want to know what you think. here is our question tonight. are too many college degrees not worth it? log on to gerri willis dot-com. vote on the right-hand side of

the screen. i will share the results at the end of tonight's show. most common majors are business administration and psychology according to the princeton review but students are looking for something different. in tonight's top five, the most unusual college majors, number five, theme park engineer. i didn't know you could study that. cal state university at long beach will give you a degree for designing and building theme park rides. number four, bakery science. they spend most times testing ingredients in finished products. grads can work in bakeries and work on development. want a class schedule involving whitewater rafting and major for you. this could be fun. this could lead in environmental education or outdoor leadership. whatever that is. number two, bowling management. offered at benson university in indiana. this is the only program of its kind in the country. students pick one of three leans. bowling center management, sales and marketing or pin setter

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>> we want to show you. this is how we track our cash on a weekly basis. we spend our money into the jar then at the end of the week to see how we're doing. >> decided 6:00 in the morning i amanda drive your i have $13 to my name and i realize to things never mind item addicted to starbucks. member to i spend way too much on starbucks. >> what about paying gas -- and cash forecasts? to make a worse time? >> taking too much time to walk-in. >> we have budgeted $60 for the weekend we have almost went through all of the of money.

>> i already feel the control having them right in front of me we had that with our old budget but i feel that cash makes me feel more in control summit will be fun to see how this goes. gerri: what a performance. i like the jars to organize the many. we will continue to follow them as the weeks go on but we have another couple to has decided to go cash only. >> fellow who we are from colorado springs. >> we have three children i administrator for a sheet metal company and we recently moved here five months ago. my wife is a stay at home moms. >> we have been married 22 years with for credit cards

we have used every would like to pay those off we are excited to take the cash challenge. gerri: a great looking family. they join us now. we appreciate your time. what a good looking family. sincerely. id you decide to ditch the credit-card? >> it is probably my fault we have the credit card so i thought it would be a great idea to take them motivational challenge to do something positive. gerri: when do you think we will accomplish and what it are your biggest concerns? >> what we hope to accomplish is to train our children this is very easy to overspend my biggest concerns no purchases online

i am not sure how that can be done with cash. >> i hear about the strategy they use some people buy gift cards and then use that. there is a lot of ways or paypal that people try to shortcut the problem. but you said this is your issue but icu really mean you are a mom and dad do most of the shopping? day you think use a a credit-card distances you from what you spend? >> it does. with a credit-card i can put everything in my car title after worry if i have enough cash. so i think this will be more focused not just to we get all the time. gerri: you have $18,000 of

credit-card debt. that is not too surprising that i guess you want to whittle that down? >> absolutely. a little bit of some of surprised how much we did have. so i had been tracking when so this is a good chance for us to work hard to get out of debt completely. >> did you not to share that information? >>. [laughter] i think i can handle things on my own and i don't want to detail him. gerri: but credit-card debt goes up so quickly. you buy a couple of things then if you don't pay off right away with the fees and interest escalate. are you building a budget? will you try to control the spending? >> we have done cash in the

past we actually did the envelope system to put money into the and the local for the week. we might go to that that is a good way to keep track as long as you know, steel from one to pay the other. [laughter] also looking at getting cash tender and spending under control. gerri: we had your monthly expenses they are much lower they in your economy looks like there is room to pay this off. your income is over 7,000 your expenses are 3,000 a year and you even have some savings. we have too full screens on this. as you look for word you want to show you do the right thing by d you have other the goals? maybe a trip. [laughter] >> we have done some in the past one year ago we did a

two week trip to the panama canal. we want to put away money instead of borrowing. gerri: you are terrific a and it thank you for helping us out and going along with us. they accuse so much. -- thank you so much. gerri: we are still looking for those who want to go credit-card free. go to gerriwillis.com send me an e-mail or aren't twitter also facebook. come on the show go cash only a credit card three. later new warnings over the head in fees and other prepaid debit cards. coming up our exclusive interview with the director of hearst magazine. stay with us.

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gerri: of fox business exclusive on the company's rebuilding manhattan joining us live from hearst corporation is interviewing the editorial director for "hearst" magazine. >> this is the magazine that has changed so much. everything is going digital but some are thriving. let's bring her in a right now for rival taking back 16 years ago to the :o: magazine. >> that is but i was the editor of good housekeeping at that time and it sold like crazy. i talked with the corporate

chief here at that point to say a think we have the magazine. , so oprah invited us out it is still selling really well >> very well. >> the assumption now is magazines the circulation is down with pressure because everything goes digital but that is not always the case? >> let me just say magazines are all live me and striking at the hearst corporation. we sell about 31 million copies of paid magazines every month. >> see you are paying ferrites. >> i will tell you we are the largest publisher in the united states. we are a great believer to move forward. never stuck in the bledsoe five years ago it was a very

important effort to develop digital. >> you just launched the good life with the doctor is. earlier today of fox business they said health is a big approach for hearst magazine but you said this fall off the show was. did that surprise you? >> it is what you hope for when you have any idea you want to prove there is an audience to test the launch a and the idea before into full production. so we sold out 375,000 copies of the magazine in about four weeks then we went back to press for another 80,000 and we have sold to a moderate thousand at this point. >> mostly it is women? >> women loved doctor is but we research before we spend the money and they trust him

so for her to have respect for somebody that vilifies them light dr. oz does the good life you need to the female readers. >> let's bring in his gerri willis. you used to work in the magazine industry and what do you think of the business? gerri: full disclosure i used to work for her. they were my boss and of course, i know alan. when is interesting is the trend to with the bigger than life personalities wrapping them magazines around that. how did they choose them or figure out the bright kind of person? is there certain characteristics? >> first off she says hello. [laughter] how did you choose with

those that will sell all of magazine. you discussed oprah of but who else? >> a food network or homes and gardens television magazine but "hearst" magazine is a good partner we have looked for partners to launch with. but the thing about it is they have to have something unique about them or about that magazine that doesn't desist on the newsstand. we think about it a lot a and fallen in love with our ideas to sit back and say why won't they? you can convince yourself of something positive but you needed to know how to create an original product that does not exist that women will buy because they will if they need it. of our partners like food

network has been terrific carter's we work together to test product so we do we will get the full subs we're 1.7 million with the of magazine like food network hdtv is only '02 years and is already profitable because it has a good following. >> and hope that the answers your question learning how they have been so successful as i walked around with my ipad i still like the magazine. >> but our readers do like to read online it sometimes the of 1.2 million in reader's great to have you. i hope your viewers have

learned something that everybody loves gerri willis gerri: she runs everything from "cosmo" to car and driver. she is impressive think you for bringing on to the show tonight. here's a question to you really trust your tax preparer? taking center stage as lawmakers look into predatory practices. peter barnes is here with the latest there are seven 1000's registered with the irs to prepare tax returns of more than half are uncontrolled prepares often not cpa or opted not to regulated in any way with the explosion of tax preparation programs it could be a friend or a neighbor to get you help at

their dining room table. with 80 million tax returns at least half from a pate prepare an estimated half of those of that is not regulated the government has tried to crack down for several years. some of them are accused of charging excessive fees a year and mistakes and outright fraud. >> is an egregious cases they calculate the refund and skip the wine that shows he did the work then after the tax payer leaves they boost the refund the thin pocket the difference. worst of all homeless the taxpayer can improve what can happen they are on the hook for the monday when the irs finds out he. >> more oversight got ammunition today from the

lead gao investigators poising as waitresses it mechanics had an undercover review those that were not cpas or lawyers and in 70 cases there were refund fares ranging from getting the taxpayer $52 less or more than they were entitled to. but there are critics of minimum standards to say they could raise prices is a fondness -- it had to do regulation may not stop the crooks who want to commit fraud. a lot of those moms and pops cannot afford this regulatory burden for sure. still too, not all prepaid cards are equal. coming up. a short word that's a tall order. up your game.

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gerri: prepaid debit cards we have been critics for a long time but news may change your mind. we have of bank rate.com here. the big study on this what is your primary finding especially with the fees? >> good news. what we see is a continued evolution of the market place whereby we see new offers coming to market that is more transparent and a lower. over time it could marginalize the hi-fis cards

that were characteristic for so long. gerri: transfers also about what is the primary trend? we saw a long period a tie with celebrities coming now with sky high fees. the cave in to challenge that? >> interestingly we see a lot of the large national and regional banks are coming in with not only the more transparent fee structure but the monthly fee is much lower, they don't charge the other a ancillary fees are sometimes waive it based on direct deposit. so a good opportunity for consumers also to help leverage the atm network because you can use that for free cash castrati and freeloads of that is a compelling offer for those who may not be able to get a

checking account or avoided the overdraft. gerri: who has the lowest fee is? to make the best card it depends on how you use it to i do think the most compelling offers for the majority are going to me that of these offered by the banks that just have a flat monthly fee and not the ancillary charges. >> to couple the findings you said take charge monthly fees. have have the activation fee ? period yes. a onetime charge. there a when dash they will charge a fee to activate. stay away from of a card that charges both the monthly fee in reactivation fee. we did see some instances it was a wonder the other. so focused on one monthly

fee not to pay an array. >> do not call because you will pay. >> a high fee cards that were so popular one of the staples was a customer service fee if you called. they are still around but they are marginalized so it is much less common now with the ec the more competitively priced. gerri: the law was come from the big banks fis from the celebrities. thank you for putting it into perspective. gerri: we will be right back.

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