In VOA Swahili's collaboration with KTN this week, BMJ Muriithi filed a report from Washington DC focusing on the high cost of living in US Vis-a-vis the situation in Kenya. He spoke to some Kenyans living in US as he sought to answer the following question: Are US citizens feeling the pinch? Which basic commodities have been hiked? What measures have been put in place by US government to cushion its citizens, what adjustments have the citizens made to be able cope with the current financial and food crisis?