{"id":97,"date":"2023-05-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=97"},"modified":"2023-05-18T17:12:15","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:12:15","slug":"new-york-times-new-york-city-is-set-to-ban-size-discrimination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/new-york-times-new-york-city-is-set-to-ban-size-discrimination\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Times: New York City Is Set to Ban Size Discrimination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Find the full report <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/11\/nyregion\/weight-discrimination-nyc.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Emma Fitzsimmons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New York City is set to become the largest American city to ban discrimination based on a person\u2019s weight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, New York City Council approved a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/06\/nyregion\/weight-discrimination-law-nyc.html\">bill that adds a person\u2019s weight to the list of characteristics that are protected from discrimination<\/a>, along with race, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The law would prohibit employers and businesses from discriminating in employment, housing and access to public accommodations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Eric Adams, a Democrat who wrote a book about losing 35 pounds on a plant-based diet, has not committed to signing the bill, but has been supportive of the effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find the full report <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/05\/11\/nyregion\/weight-discrimination-nyc.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Emma Fitzsimmons<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York City is set to become the largest American city to ban discrimination based on a person\u2019s weight.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, New York City Council approved a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/04\/06\/nyregion\/weight-discrimination-law-nyc.html\">bill that adds a person\u2019s weight to the list of characteristics that are protected from discrimination<\/a>, along with race, gender, age, religion and sexual orientation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2023\/05\/11\/new-york-times-new-york-city-is-set-to-ban-size-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-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","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=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}