This brief describes the significant hardships child care workers experienced during the second and third years of the COVID-19 pandemic (from April 2021 to August 2022), focusing specifically on housing insecurity, energy insecurity, difficulty with household expenses, and food insecurity. Using Census Household Pulse data, we looked at child care workers’ experiences of hardship over time. We also look at how experiences of hardship differed by race and by the presence of young children in households. (author abstract)