Beginning August 1, it’s illegal to discriminate against someone based on their height or weight in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
The city follows New York, San Francisco and a patchwork of other cities that have installed legal protections against that kind of bias in housing, public accommodations and hiring. But in most of the U.S., that kind of discrimination is perfectly legal.
The job market is not always kind to people with larger bodies, said Natalie Boero, who studies weight bias at San Jose State University…