Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Even though public financial debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of expansion and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult financial reform efforts. https://dexitex.com/userinfo.php?user=ernestine_tuggle-451694&com=profile&op=userinfo