If you have the sort of face that only a mother could love, you may not be surprised by the ugly truths documented by Daniel Hamermesh.
Hamermesh, a University of Texas at Austin economist and author of Beauty Pays, puts forth the provocative proposition that ugly people deserve to be legally protected in the same way that individuals are protected on the basis of race, religion, disability, etc.
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