Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. While general public debt and inflation remained a problem in 2004, Brazil's economic system showed indications of advancement and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult economic reform initiatives. https://constico.com/userinfo.php?mod=space&userinfo=carmela.grier-451694&from=space&do=profile&op=userinfo