Civil servants staged large strikes opposing this and other reforms. Whilst general public credit card debt and inflation remained a challenge in 2004, Brazil's financial state confirmed signs of development and unemployment was down. Polls in Aug. 2004 demonstrated that almost all of Brazilians supported Lula's challenging financial reform endeavours. https://moz-news.com/profile.php?op=userinfo&user=blondell-kurtz.451694&do=profile&action=view