Civil servants staged substantial strikes opposing this together with other reforms. Though general public personal debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed indications of development and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's tricky financial reform attempts. https://moz-news.com/userinfo.php?op=userinfo&username=carolyn_therrien_451694&mod=space&from=space