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Bankruptcy laws are rigged against working people. Employers, corporations and lenders often exploit these laws to weaken our retirement security, cut health care and leave young workers saddled with student loan debt, without the prospect of a good job or the ability to discharge the debt through bankruptcy. Today, the AFL-CIO passed a convention resolution addressing the need to reform our country's bankruptcy laws to better shield workers from harm in the form of broken pension and health care promises and to diminish economic hardship that comes from these bankruptcies. 

Delegates focused on shared prosperity, good jobs and raising wages, as the AFL-CIO 2013 Convention entered its third day in Los Angeles. The three working family economics resolutions that won approval this morning center on the labor movement’s vision of shared prosperity here and around the globe, the steps needed to create good jobs, economic security and tax fairness and three dozen specific actions to raise wages and put more money into workers’ pockets.

Here are some of the top stories we're following Tuesday at NBC News:Before push for war, a play for peaceAs President Barack Obama prepares to make his case to the American people to use force in Syria, France announced it will seek a U.N.

Residents in the San Francisco Bay Area have been urged to seal themselves in their homes as smoke spread from a growing wildfire in mountains to the east.The Morgan Fire has scorched 3,718 acres in just three days and is 20 percent contained, a Cal Fire spokesman told NBC News early Tuesday.