Civil servants staged enormous strikes opposing this as well as other reforms. Whilst general public debt and inflation remained a difficulty in 2004, Brazil's overall 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://worldrankedlist.com/userinfo.php?action=view&com=profile&do=profile&mod=space&user=art_ritchard.451694