With a hat tip to Ezra Klein for the inspiration, here’s AAM’s Year in Graphs!

This February, we brought you the following chart, showing job creation from January 2010-January 2011:

Now here’s what the chart looks like at the close of 2011:

And to put it all in context, here’s what all of those gains look like compared to the jobs lost since January 2000:

Some other important charts from 2011:

The connection between state budget deficits and the loss of manufacturing jobs:

China’s Share of our overall Manufacturing Trade Deficit:

Comparing the American currency balance to other countries: