One of the Growth and Opportunity Project recommendations was more access and more innovation.
To its credit, The Growth and Opportunity Project did not pull its punches.
The new study comes from the Equality of Opportunity Project, which is led by economists at Harvard and Berkeley.
With its title The Growth and Opportunity Project, you'd think it was a rose-tinted vision of the future.
The national party's report, called the Growth and Opportunity Project, is the latest contribution to hand-wringing among Republicans since Mr. Obama defeated Mitt Romney.
"The Growth and Opportunity Project will recommend a plan to further ensure Republicans are victorious in 2013, 2014, 2016 and beyond," Mr. Priebus said in a statement.
Researchers for the Growth & Opportunity Project contacted more than twenty-six hundred people — voters, officeholders, Party operatives — conducted focus groups, and took polls around the country.
The 97-page Growth and Opportunity Project report was commissioned in the wake of the 2012 election debacle by Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
The Growth and Opportunity Project's withering assessment had no new policies to propose — it seemed wary of the very notion of ideological debate.
The conclusions of the Growth and Opportunity Project echoed loudly on the right, and they undoubtedly helped immigration reform pass in the U.S. Senate, with fourteen Republican votes.
