Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this along with other reforms. Whilst general public personal debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's overall economy confirmed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's hard economic reform endeavours. https://extraordinarz.com/profile.php?username=forrest_scarf-451694&action=view&name=Your_Account&mod=space&from=space