{"id":103,"date":"2023-05-11T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T17:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=103"},"modified":"2023-05-18T17:52:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:52:34","slug":"cnn-new-york-city-passes-bill-banning-weight-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/cnn-new-york-city-passes-bill-banning-weight-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: New York City passes bill banning weight discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the full article and video segment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/11\/business\/new-york-weight-discrimination\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Vanessa Yurkevich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York (CNN)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Victoria Abraham graduated from New York University last year, ready to enter the job market. She is a self-proclaimed \u201cfat activist\u201d who has found her voice as a content creator online, but has concerns about applying for new job.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWalking into a job interview as a fat person, I\u2019m already at a disadvantage,\u201d said Victoria Abraham. \u201cI know that whatever my qualifications are, my weight is a con.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But on Thursday, the New York City council passed a bill that would make it illegal to discriminate against height and weight in housing, employment, and public accommodations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI know that at least when I get a job, if I\u2019m experiencing this discrimination, I have someone supporting me. I have the support of the government; I have legal protection where there wasn\u2019t any before,\u201d said Abraham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Only six other cities and one state have similar laws protecting Americans against height and weight discrimination: Binghamton, New York; Madison, Wisconsin; Urbana, Illinois; Washington, DC; San Francisco and Santa Cruz, California; and Michigan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Weight discrimination is widespread, but hits women the hardest \u2013 particularly women of color.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Women considered obese earned $5.25 less per hour than women considered normal weight, according to a Vanderbilt University study. Discrimination based on weight is also comparable to the levels of racial discrimination in the United States, according to the American Journal of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s not only protecting people in the workplace from this or in getting apartments, but it\u2019s also about changing culture,\u201d said Shaun Abreu, a New York City Councilman, and the lead sponsor of the bill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abreu said a version of the bill existed before he came on board. But after facing his own weight discrimination, he took the lead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full article and video segment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/11\/business\/new-york-weight-discrimination\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vanessa Yurkevich<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York (CNN)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0Victoria Abraham graduated from New York University last year, ready to enter the job market. She is a self-proclaimed \u201cfat activist\u201d who has found her voice as a content creator online, but has concerns about applying for new job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/cnn-new-york-city-passes-bill-banning-weight-discrimination\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}