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  "id": "2006-january-february-disaster-loans",
  "slug": "2006-january-february-disaster-loans",
  "url": "https://dwillis.github.io/uplink/article/2006-january-february-disaster-loans.html",
  "year": 2006,
  "month": "January February",
  "monthNum": 1,
  "headline": "Disaster loans",
  "kicker": "",
  "author_name": "",
  "author_title": "",
  "affiliation": "IRE and NICAR",
  "summary": "The IRE and NICAR Database Library has updated its Small Business Administration Disaster Loan database, now current through September 2005 and containing over 867,000 records dating back to 1980, which journalists can use to analyze government disaster response and loan repayment rates.",
  "keywords": [
    "loans",
    "disasters",
    "databases"
  ],
  "topics": [
    "Data & Databases",
    "Investigative Methods",
    "Government & Politics"
  ],
  "technologies": [],
  "full_text": "Disaster loans\n\nThe IRE and NICAR Database Library has just updated its Small Business Administration Disaster Loan database. Current as of September 2005, the data includes more than 300 loan records for the month following Hurricane Katrina.\n\nThe database details loans made to businesses and individuals as disaster assistance. The data identifies the borrower, the disaster, the amount and, for business borrowers, whether the loan was paid in full or deemed uncollectible. The data includes a total of 867,631 records dating back to 1980.\n\nJournalists can use this data to analyze the government's response to natural disasters by finding who received the loans. Also, journalists can calculate loan repayment rates.\n\nFor a sample of the SBA data and more information about SBA, visit www.nicar.org/data/sba/sbadis.htr or call the Database Library at 573-884-7711.",
  "provenance": {
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    "extracted_at": "2026-07-05",
    "verified": true
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