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 McGee Brown Achievement Award from The Ohio State University Alumni Association; the Champion of Children Award; and the YWCA Woman of Achievement Award. Yvette McGee Brown was born in urban Columbus to a single teen-age mother. Yvette was raised by her mother and a grandmother, and the importance of education was stressed to her as she grew up. She was a first generation college graduate. She is a Baptist. She is married to Anthony Brown. They have three children. During Brown's campaign for lieutenant governor of Ohio, she referred to her grandmother, who advised her to "Go run, tell that!", when others