Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. While community personal debt and inflation remained an issue in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of advancement and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult financial reform initiatives. https://gemstonic.com/userinfo.php?name=Your_Account&user=ervin_thrasher_451694&com=profile&mod=space&op=userinfo