Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Although community personal debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed signs of development and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's rough economic reform attempts. https://build-mind.com/profile.php?do=profile&from=space&user=keesha_covey.451694&action=view&com=profile