<p>Senate Finance Committee Chairman Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., left, holds his head as he walks on Capitol Hill in Washington Tuesday as negotiations continue on a bill to extended unemployment benefits and preserve tax cuts.</p>
December 8, 2010
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December 8, 2010 8 p.m.
Analysts: Tax deal should help economy
WASHINGTON (AP) - The tax deal struck by President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans essentially gives Americans a pay raise - pumping money into the economy almost immediately and probably creating hundreds of thousands of jobs over the next two years, economists say.