Yvette Cooper buyers will find average house prices are ten times their salary. That could lead to real social inequality and injustice. Every part of the country needs more affordable homes – in the North and the South, in urban and rural communities". In 2008, Cooper became the first woman to serve as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. As her husband, Ed Balls, was already a cabinet minister, her promotion meant that the two became the first married couple ever to sit in the cabinet together. In 2009, Cooper was appointed as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and took over
Yvette Lee Bowser Kyle Bowser in 1994. The two worked together on "Living Single", "Half & Half", and "For Your Love". She graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1983 where she attended with Holly Robinson – who was a part of the "Hangin' with Mr. Cooper" cast and later starred in "For Your Love" – then attended Stanford University where, in 1986, she pledged the Xi Beta Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Yvette Lee Bowser Yvette Denise Lee Bowser (born June 9, 1965) is an American television writer and producer. She is perhaps best known for writing and producing "Half &