The media is doing everything it can to hold this number below 10. They will lie if they have to.
Remember what they did when the number of American dead in Iraq hit 3000.
Easy. The U3 numbers are designed that way. U3 tracks those unemployed for three months and taking unemployment benefits whilst supposedly looking for a job. If they’ve been unemployed for more than three months and/or no longer collecting unemployment benefits they are no longer included in the U3 numbers, and shift into the U6 category.
U6 is the true measure of the current state of labor force employment.