{"id":96,"date":"2023-05-11T15:45:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=96"},"modified":"2023-05-17T15:49:57","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T15:49:57","slug":"bbc-news-new-york-city-passes-law-barring-weight-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/bbc-news-new-york-city-passes-law-barring-weight-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC News: New York City passes law barring weight discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the full story <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-65562288\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-65562288\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Nathalie Jimenez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>New York City has passed a bill outlawing discrimination based on weight, joining a growing movement in the US to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 40% of American adults are considered obese and studies show weight stigma is pervasive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bias can bring sharp costs, such as lower wages, especially for women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City Councilman Shaun Abreu said weight discrimination was &#8220;a silent burden people have had to carry&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full story <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-65562288\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-65562288\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Nathalie Jimenez<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>New York City has passed a bill outlawing discrimination based on weight, joining a growing movement in the US to make size a protected trait on par with race and gender.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 40% of American adults are considered obese and studies show weight stigma is pervasive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/bbc-news-new-york-city-passes-law-barring-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-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","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=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}