Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Although general public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's financial state confirmed signs of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's challenging economic reform endeavours. https://bookmarksmyweb.com/userinfo.php?action=view&com=profile&user=blondell-kurtz.451694&from=space&do=profile