Civil servants staged significant strikes opposing this and other reforms. While general public credit card debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's overall economy showed signs of advancement and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's rough economic reform efforts. https://dexitex.com/userinfo.php?userinfo=cara.thwaites_451694&com=profile&op=userinfo