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Founded in 1970, the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies is America’s Black think tank, producing data, research, and analysis of key issues like small business, the future of Black workers, expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit, stopping online disinformation, and broadband access and adoption. Spencer is the author or co-author of numerous academic articles, think tank reports, and popular commentaries on race and public policy, including “An Introduction to the Future of Work in the Black Rural South” and State Power to Regulate Social Media Companies to Prevent Voter Suppression. He also edited the Joint Center’s report “Expanding Broadband in  the Black Rural South.” Since 2005, Spencer has been a tenured professor of law at George Washington University.