Civil servants staged substantial strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Whilst general public debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic climate confirmed signs of expansion and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's challenging financial reform efforts. https://prospectuso.com/userinfo.php?op=userinfo&username=cara.thwaites_451694&do=profile