The people who suffered first in North Carolina were the sharecroppers and mill village hands. They had little or nothing to fall back on. By 1931, matters got worse, and they had little or no work. . . . Workers without jobs turned to the county governments for help. It was called relief in that day, since the community was to relieve as much suffering as it could. Usually, families on relief had to work for the town or county. Catawba County put its folks on relief to work growing a garden to help feed the unemployed. In some counties, like Anson, as many as half the families were on relief at one time or another. Which Depression-era government program does this passage describe?

a relief program that sponsored artists and writers living in North Carolina
a recovery program that built new forms of infrastructure across the state
a relief program that helped residents who were hungry or out of work
an agency that worked to reform the state’s banking system