This, in effect, is good news, as the unemployment rate has increased because of an increase in the rate of participation in the labor force, and not because of a drop in the number of employed persons. If the rate of participation had not risen, the rate of unemployment would today be about 5.5 percent.
I do have a complex and somewhat longish answer and here it is. 10. For my long and complex answer, it is necessary to refer to the interesting debate on whether economics can be a deterministic and exact science like physics.