California's population changes will present challenging public policy dilemmas concerning employment, income, political participation, education, and health services. This paper shares research results to be published in a book entitled "The Burden of Support: The Young Latino in an Aging Society," by David Hayes-Bautista, Jorge Chapa, and Warner Shink. The report identifies trends and shifts in California's population that will affect public policy. The method used was a statistically based "population model" incorporating age and major race-ethnicity cohorts projected over a 50-year period between 1980 and 2030. Projections show that California will develop into an age-race stratified society by 2030. Residents over 65 will most likely be Anglo; persons under 65 (the working age population) are likely to be Latino or another minority. Projections are based on three assumptions: (1) a 5-year increase in life expectancy, (2) a gradually declining Latino fertility rate, and (3) increasing immigration to California. Strategies must be developed to improve broad-based intergenerational carrying capacity. Social welfare policymakers will have to reconcile tensions between the dependent population segments at both ends of the age spectrum. The elderly will need income maintenance and health care services, while the children will need more and better educational services. A human investment policy model is needed to maximize everyone's productivity and potential. Included are numerous charts and 11 references. (MLH)