Gov. Martin O’Malley on Tuesday ordered 67,000 Maryland state employees to take unpaid leave in the next six months as a budget crisis worsened.

The $34 million the state will keep in its coffers from the move will do little, though, to stanch the fiscal hemorrhaging in Annapolis.

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