Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this and also other reforms. Despite the fact that public debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's economic climate confirmed indications of expansion and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that the majority of Brazilians supported Lula's difficult economic reform https://moonzflower.com/profile.php?op=userinfo&userinfo=ericka_prendergast-451694&mod=space&from=space&name=Your_Account