Civil servants staged massive strikes opposing this together with other reforms. Even though community financial debt and inflation remained a difficulty in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of progress and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's rough economic reform attempts. https://moz-news.com/profile.php?com=profile&do=profile&userinfo=zachery.theodore_451694