In the area of Ashulia, Dhaka, the center of the garment district, recent protests seeking an increase in the minimum wage to 5000 taka per month ($43) suggest that these economics cannot continue. According to labor unions, the current minimum wages do described the current minimum wages do not permit a subsistence existence. Even the country's prime minister described the current minimum wage as 'inhumanely low' In response to this economic reality, factory workers have begun working off their ่jobs and turning to the streets in the in the hundreds of thousands.