This article doesn't offer enough context to let the readers analyze the whole picture about the unemployment taxes and how businesses as uber/lyft, based on contractors' deals, were affected.

Basic statement of the tax burden facts, without delving further into the issue. Quotes Lyft for the corporate spin response but no other contextual info on the recent passage of the California bill that requires gig economy employers to treat their contractors as employees

Author Megan Henney provides comment from Lyft, but the overall framing of this story is an attack on Uber and Lyft for missed out tax revenue to the state of California. It doesn't discuss tax revenue under the companies current contract-workers status and it doesn't discuss how if all those workers were listed as employees, they would now be earning full unemployment insurance from the state.