Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Though community credit card debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's economy showed signs of growth and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 shown that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's challenging economic reform efforts. https://multipurpose-wapuula.com/userinfo.php?name=Your_Account&user=raina_verdin_451694&mod=space&op=userinfo