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Weight Discrimination Is Rampant. Yet in Most Places It’s Still Legal.

Prejudice against obesity can cost people their jobs and dignity

By Rebecca Puhl

The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City obsessively monitored the weight of its waitresses, according to 22 of them whosuedit in 2008. They would be suspended, for example, if they gained…

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