This report examines data from two administrations of a national survey given to ECE professionals in 2020 and 2021. The Yale-CARES survey was launched in May–June 2020 and more than 82,000 ECE professionals across the country responded to questions about their mental, physical, and financial well-being. A second round of data collection in June – August 2021 had just under 50,000 respondents. (author abstract)