Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this together with other reforms. Even though public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed indications of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://whelex.com/profile.php?com=profile&action=view&name=Your_Account&username=meagan-munger.451694